The Roman mistress : ancient and modern representations
A highly accessible study of 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.
Print Book, English, 2007
1st pub. in pbk View all formats and editions
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007
x, 452 p. : il. ; 23 cm
9780198150756, 9780199228331, 019815075X, 0199228337
954138402
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