Cretan women Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin poetry

Armstrong investigates the myths of three Cretan women as they appear in Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Empire. She offers detailed readings of the most prominent treatments of the stories, alongside a thematic investigation of the ideas of memory, wildness, and morality which recur so...

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Main Author: Armstrong, Rebecca
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2006, c2006
Series:Oxford classical monographs / Oxford classical monographs
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