Motherhood and the Other Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic |
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| Author:
| Augoustakis, Antony |
| Series title: | Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-282-76827-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $331.20 |
Book Description:
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This is the first book-length study to reconstruct the role of women in the epic poems of the Flavian period of Latin literature. Antony Augoustakis examines the role of female characters from the perspective of Julia Kristeva's theories on foreign otherness and motherhood to underscore the on-going negotiation between same and other in the Roman literary imagination as a telling reflection on the construction of Roman identity and of gender and cultural hierarchies.
This is the first book-length study to reconstruct the role of women in the epic poems of the Flavian period of Latin literature. Antony Augoustakis examines the role of female characters from the perspective of Julia Kristeva's theories on foreign otherness and motherhood to underscore the on-going negotiation between same and other in the Roman literary imagination as a telling reflection on the construction of Roman identity and of gender and cultural hierarchies.