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Roman Literature, Gender and Reception

Barbara K. Gold, Judith Perkins, Donald Lateiner

2013

Overview

This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications and roles, and subsequent interpretations of the republican and imperial Roman past. The prose and poetry of Cicero and Petronius, Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid receive fresh interpretations; pagan and Christian texts are re-examined from feminist and imaginative perspectives; genres of epic, didactic, and tragedy are re-examined; and subsequent uses and re-uses of the ancient heritage are probed with new attention: Shakespeare, Nineteenth Century American theater, and contemporary productions involving prisoners and veterans. Comprising nineteen essays collectively honoring the feminist Classical scholar Judith Hallett, this book will interest the Classical scholar, the ancient historian, the student of Reception Studies, and feminists interested in all periods. The authors from the United States, Britain, France and Switzerland are authorities in one or more of these fields and chapters range from the late Republic to the late Empire to the present.

• Publisher: Routledge,Taylor and Francis,Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: ancient history / Ancient Philosophy / Ancient Religions / Christian martyrs / Christian texts / Cicero / feminist / Hallett, Judith P., 1944 / History / Ancient / Rome / imperial Rome / Judith Hallett / Latin Literature / Latin literature -- History and criticism / Literary criticism / Ancient & Classical / Literary criticism / Drama / Lucretius / Ovid / pagan texts / Petronius / republican Rome / Roman Empire / Roman History & Culture / Sex role in literature / Virgil
• ISBN: 9781138243118, 0415825075, 1138243116, 9780415825078