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BL
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1017225
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b771595
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Augoustakis, Antony.
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Motherhood and the other : : fashioning female power in Flavian epic /\ Antony Augoustakis.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Oxford University Press,, ©2010.
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| Series Statement
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Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory
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xii, 314 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm.
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| ISBN
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0199584419
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: 9780199584413
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Other and same : female presence in Flavian epic. (Fe)male perspectives on cosmopolitanism and identity ; Motherhood and the other defined : Julia Kristeva in the chôra of strangers ; Epic within epic : Lemnos and Theban civil war in Statius' Thebaid ; Patrio-tic epic : same and other Silius' Punica -- Mourning endless : female otherness in Statius' Thebaid. defining the periphery : Thebes and Lemnos ; Between Lemnos and Argos : Hypsipyle's transgressed boundaries ; Eumenidum antiquissima : Jocasta the warmonger or helpless bystander? ; In the chôra of sisterhood : Antigone and Ismene : public gaze and private lament ; Lament and the poet : boundaries (re)transgressed -- Defining the other : from altera patria to tellus mater in Silius Italicus' Punica ; Fathers, sons, and the poetics of patria ; Capua : another Rome : a city in the periphery ; Saguntum as same and other : breaking the bond with patria Rome ; German Elissae : a Carthaginian reborn ; The renewal of Tellus -- Comes ultima fati : Regulus' encounter with Marcia's otherness in Punica 6 ; Regulus and the Punica : bridging traditions? ; Literary convention or subversive speech? ; Lucan's Marcia and the foreboding of doom ; Marcia's Didoesque farewell : impenetrability wounded ; "Securing" the future ; Transgressing against nature : the serpent and Virgil's Camilla ; Fashioning a new generation : Marcia "sowing the seed" ; Li occhi casti di Marzia tua : embedding Marcia in the Punica -- Playing the same : Roman and non-Roman mothers in the Punica. Edonis ut Pangaea : Imilce's art of dissuasion ; Ne bella pavescas : mothers as "educators" and the regeneration of the female ; Tempus cognoscere manes femineos : the female chôra in the geography of the Underworld ; Caelicolum Phrygia genetricem sede : a foreign goddess in Rome -- Epilogue : Virgins and (M)others : appropriations of same and other in Flavian Rome.
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In this pioneering study, Antony Augoustakis reconstructs the role of women in the epic poems of the Flavian period of Latin literature, examining the role of female characters from the perspective of Julia Kristeva's theories on foreign otherness and motherhood.
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Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius., Punica.
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Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius Asconius, 26-101, Punica
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Statius, Publius Papinius, 45-96, Thebais
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Epic poetry, Latin-- History and criticism.
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Motherhood in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Epic poetry, Latin.
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Epos-- lateinisches-- Motiv-- Frau.
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Epos-- lateinisches-- Motiv-- Mutter.
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Epos.
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Frau-- Motiv-- Epos-- lateinisches.
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Frau.
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Fremdheit
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Latein.
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Motherhood in literature.
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Motiv.
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Mutter
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Mutter-- Motiv-- Epos-- lateinisches.
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Mutter.
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Women in literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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873.01093522
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| LC Classification
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PA6054.A84 2010
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873
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