基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2002. From Latin love poetry's beloveds to modern popular culture's Cleopatras and Messalinas, representations of the Roman mistress have brought into question both ancient and modern genders and political systems.
Full Description
From Latin love poetry's dominating and enslaving beloveds, to modern popular culture's infamous Cleopatras and Messalinas, representations of the Roman mistress (or the mistress of Romans) have brought into question both ancient and modern genders and political systems. The Roman Mistress explores representations of transgressive women in Latin love poetry and British television drama, in Roman historiography and nineteenth-century Italian anthropology, on classical coinage and college websites, as poetic metaphor and in the Hollywood star system. In a highly accessible style, the book makes an important and original contribution simultaneously to feminist scholarship on antiquity, the classical tradition, and cultural studies.
Contents
Introduction ; I. LOVE POETRY ; 1. Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy ; 2. Written Women: Propertius' scripta puella (2. 10-13) ; 3. The Elegiac Woman at Rome: Propertius Book 4 ; 4. Reading Female Flesh: Ovid Amores 3. 1 ; 5. Taking the Woman's Part: Gender and Scholarship on Love Elegy ; II. RECEPTION ; 6. Meretrix regina: Augustan Cleopatras ; 7. Oriental Vamp; Cleopatra 1910s ; 8. Glamour Girl: Cleopatra 1930s-1960s ; 9. Meretrix Augusta: Messalina 1870s-1920s ; 10. Suburban Feminist: Messalina 1930s-1970s
