說明 |
xvi, 296 pages ; 24 cm |
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text rdacontent |
媒體類型 |
unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283) and indexes. |
Contents |
Brides -- The Roman wedding -- Sexuality and ritual: Catullus' wedding poems -- Isis at a wedding: gender, ethnicity, and Roman identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses 9 -- Wartime weddings: Lucan's Civil war and Seneca's Trojan women -- Quartilla's priapic weddings in Petronius' Satyrica: female power and male impotence -- Mourners -- Roman burial rites -- Mourning Orpheus: poetry and lament in Ovid's Metamorphoses 10 and 11 -- A new hope: burying the war dead in Statius' Thebaid 12 -- Bacchae -- Bacchic rites in Greece and Rome -- Roman Bacchae: Dionysiac mysteries, masculinity, and the state in Livy's Bacchanalian narrative -- Philomela's Bacchic justice: ritual resistance and abusive authority in Metamorphoses 6 -- Hypsipyle's Bacchic pietas: ritual, exemplarity, and gender in Valerius and Statius -- Women-only rituals -- Women-only rituals in Rome -- Spinning Hercules: gender, religion, and geography in Propertius 4.9 -- Hercules and the founding mothers: Mater Matuta and the matralia in Ovid's Fasti 6 -- Dancing in Scyros: masculinity and young women's rituals in Statius' Achilleid -- Epilogue: Tacita's rites and the story of Lara in Ovid's Fasti 2. |
主題 |
Women in literature.
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Latin literature -- History and criticism.
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Epithalamia -- Rome -- History and criticism.
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Mourning customs in literature.
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Bacchantes in literature.
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國際標準書號 |
9781421428918 |
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1421428911 |
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