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1 online resource (452 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Originally published: 2002. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
List of illustrations; Introduction; PART 1 Love Poetry; PART 2 Reception; Bibliography; Index of Classical Passages Cited; General Index. |
| Summary |
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. - ;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 representatio. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C. -- In literature.
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Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C. |
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Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C. -- In motion pictures.
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Messalina, Valeria, -48 -- In literature.
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Messalina, Valeria, -48. |
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Messalina, Valeria, -48 -- In motion pictures.
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Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C. |
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Messalina, Valeria, -48. |
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Love poetry, Latin -- History and criticism.
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Love poetry, Latin. |
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Mistresses -- Rome.
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex role in literature. |
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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Sex role in motion pictures. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wyke, Maria. Roman mistress. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007 9780199228331 0199228337 (OCoLC)124025287 |
| ISBN |
9780191541407 (electronic book) |
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0191541400 (electronic book) |
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