Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's Heroides - Hardcover
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Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's Heroides
Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides" explores Ovid's reconceptualization of the heroines' maternal experience. Rather than aligning them with the stereotypical roles of Roman women, motherhood enables the Ovidian heroines to challenge traditional norms with irreverent perspectives on gender categories and familial relationships. To confront these perspectives and overcome the dialectic...
Simona Martorana is a Lecturer at the Australian National University. She is a scholar in classics who combines a philological reading of the texts with modern theoretical approaches, particularly from gender, ecocriticism, and medical humanities. Her scholarship includes several articles and book chapters on classical and medieval Latin literature.
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