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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Heroides"”.
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Translational Wit: Seventeenth-Century Literary Translations of Selections from Ovid’s Heroides
… of two texts from Publius Ovidius Naso's Heroides, "Phyllis to Demophoon" and "Phaedra to Hippolytus." The first chapter describes John Dryden's system of translational practices and some theoretical issues surrounding literary translation and its critical interpretation. Even though …
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Traditions of Tenderness: Sensibility and the Classics in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
… modern age. The final section focuses on Ovid’s Heroides, showing how eighteenth-century translation and interpretation practices rejected older visions of the female characters as crude or silly harlots and transformed them into dignified heroines. The language of newly sympathetic Heroides …
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The Ideal of Lucretia in Augustan Latin Poetry
… Ovid, are more humorous than respectful. In the Heroides Ovid presents the task as a laborious reality. He also casts doubt on the possibility of distinguishing matronae by ideal costume. Ovid appears to suggest a possible “new” woman, neither matrona nor meretrix. A return to the ideal is seen …
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Varying Virtue : Mythological Paragons of Wifely Virtues in Roman Elegy
… the letters of Penelope and Laodamia in Ovid’s Heroides, finding there the same sense of grating between the epic-tragic and elegiac genre systems. In addition it shows that statements by both characters may be read as metapoetic statements on the aims of the genre. Passages drawing on the …
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Female characterisation in the epic poetry of P. Papinius Statius
… poetry, particularly the Metamorphoses and Heroides. To a lesser extent Statius was influenced by contemporary Latin epics: Valerius Flaccus' mythological Argonautica, Lucan's politico-historical Pharsalia and Silius Italicus' Punica. In analysing the presentation of heroines and goddesses …
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<i>Vim Parat</i>: Patterns of Sexualized Violence, Victim-Blaming, and Sororophobia in Ovid
<p>My dissertation argues for the importance of understanding the depiction of sexualized violence and rape in the Roman poet Ovid’s extensive corpus through the modern feminist concepts of victim-blaming (blaming victims of sexual abuse for their own abuse) and sororophobia (female figures …