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Women and War in Roman Epic
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1. Subjects, Abjects and Others: The Narrative Construction of Subject Positions in War Epic -- Chapter 2. Origins of War -- 1. Casus belli: War-Bringing Marriages and Ill-Omened Brides -- 2. Warmongering Furies and Active Ag...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
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, 2020
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| Series: | The Language of Classical Literature Ser
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6384979 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1. Subjects, Abjects and Others: The Narrative Construction of Subject Positions in War Epic -- Chapter 2. Origins of War -- 1. Casus belli: War-Bringing Marriages and Ill-Omened Brides -- 2. Warmongering Furies and Active Agitators -- 3. Divine Interventions and Semiotic furor: Virgil's Amata and Turnus -- Chapter 3. Victims of War: Gendered Dynamics of Suffering -- 1. The Victimised Female Body and the Construction of Roman Identity -- 2. The Victim's Viewpoint: Female Gaze and Epic Subjectivity -- 3. Marginal Mothers? The Threatening Overtones of Maternal Fear -- 4. Grief, Lament and the Dissolution of Differences -- Chapter 4. 'Playing Supermen': The Manly Matrons of Roman Epic -- 1. Mentem aequare viros et laudis poscere partem: Female Groups in Defense of Their Cities -- 2. Fida coniunx-comes ultima fati? -- 3. Da mihi castra sequi: The Female Intrusion in the World of War -- Chapter 5. Means of Production or Weapons of Destruction? Gender and Violence in Roman War Epic -- 1. Manly Men versus Effeminate Others: Armed Violence in the Construction of Romanitas -- 2. Women in Arms: The Absolute Other? -- 3. Bellatrix virgo: An Outsider or an Insider? -- 4. Fragile Warriors and the Questioning of the Male Subject Position -- Chapter 6. Sabine Successors? The Failure of Female Mediation -- 1. The Futility of mora, the Failure of Mediation: Mixing and Juxtaposing Epic with Historiography -- 2. Functional Failures: Epic Women Tangled Up with War -- Chapter 7. Dynamics of Death -- 1. Death, Power and Narrative Control: Creusa, Dido, and Cleopatra -- 2. Getting Rid of the Queen: The Archetype of regina moritura -- Chapter 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- General Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (340 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789004443457 |
