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 makes an important and original contribution simultaneously to feminist scholarship on antiquity, the classical tradition, and cultural studies.
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"Wyke's essays...powerfully demonstrated the artificiality of the elegiac world, its women in particular. Wyke's key insight about love elegy is that...the elegiac woman has everything to do with the construction of a provocative male persona, and very little to do with women per se."--Times Literary Supplement
"The material that Wyke has unearthed...is an extraordinary mixture of kitsch, glamour and classically inspired wit."--Mary Beard, London Review of Books
"It is impossible to represent the complexity and subtleties of Wyke's arguments in a short review, and that is the reason to read her book.... The Roman Mistress is a useful read for anyone who wishes to understand the feminist perspective on Roman elegy.... Wyke's book is essential reading for those who wish to learn how the Classics have been adapted for twentieth and twenty-first century audiences."--New England Classical Journal
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Maria Wyke is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading
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A pressing and persistent problem confronts work on the women of ancient Rome: a need to determine the relation between the realities of women's lives and their representation in Latin literature. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
obstinately male genre, elegiac mistress, elegiac ego, elegiac woman, amatory idioms, elegiac women, elegiac corpus, elegiac production, elegiac beloved, dominating mistress, narrating ego, elegiac discourse, elegiac writing, elegiac puella, elegiac world, literary eroticism, amatory elegy, elegiac genre, elegiac texts, scripta puella, elegiac composition, elegiac narrative, elegiac lover, living mistress, programmatic poems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Julius Caesar, Augustan Rome, Theda Bara, United States, Claudius the God, Enrico Guazzoni, Reading Female Flesh, Elizabeth Taylor, Mankiewicz's Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Pietro Cossa, Claudette Colbert, Robert Graves, Propertius Book, Judith Hallett, Cossa's Messalina, Herald Tribune, Ovid Amores, Propertian Cynthia, Susan Hayward, Agrippina the Younger, Augustan Cleopatras, Catholic Church, Jasper Griffin, Lore Eleg New!
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A pressing and persistent problem confronts work on the women of ancient Rome: a need to determine the relation between the realities of women's lives and their representation in Latin literature. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
obstinately male genre, elegiac mistress, elegiac ego, elegiac woman, amatory idioms, elegiac women, elegiac corpus, elegiac production, elegiac beloved, dominating mistress, narrating ego, elegiac discourse, elegiac writing, elegiac puella, elegiac world, literary eroticism, amatory elegy, elegiac genre, elegiac texts, scripta puella, elegiac composition, elegiac narrative, elegiac lover, living mistress, programmatic poems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Julius Caesar, Augustan Rome, Theda Bara, United States, Claudius the God, Enrico Guazzoni, Reading Female Flesh, Elizabeth Taylor, Mankiewicz's Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Pietro Cossa, Claudette Colbert, Robert Graves, Propertius Book, Judith Hallett, Cossa's Messalina, Herald Tribune, Ovid Amores, Propertian Cynthia, Susan Hayward, Agrippina the Younger, Augustan Cleopatras, Catholic Church, Jasper Griffin, Lore Eleg New!
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- Claudius the God by Robert Graves on 8 pages
- Julius Caesar by Michael Grant on page 197, and page 206
- Latin Poets and Roman Life (Bristol Classical Paperbacks.) by Jasper Griffin on page 16, and Back Matter
- Silent Film (Depth of Field) by Richard Abel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant on page 130, and Back Matter
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- Women on Stage in Stuart Drama by Sophie Tomlinson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Roman Women (Cambridge Introduction to Roman Civilization) by Eve D'Ambra in Back Matter
- The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition by Gaius Valerius Catullus in Back Matter
- Oxford Readings in Ovid (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies) by Peter E. Knox in Back Matter
- Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome by Rebecca Langlands in Back Matter
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