Transgressive Heroism: Gender, Genre, and Ovid in Valerius Flaccus' >Argonautica - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Raymond David MarksSeries:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes #175Publish date:2024-10-07Pages:298
Language:EnglishPublisher:de GruyterISBN-13:9783111562544ISBN-10:3111562549UPC:9783111562544Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient and ClassicalSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.411Product ID:SC8CEZMZ02
Transgressive Heroism: Gender, Genre, and Ovid in Valerius Flaccus' >Argonautica
Roman epic is traditionally understood to advance a masculine, martial form of heroism. In his version of the Argonaut legend, the Argonautica, however, Valerius Flaccus challenges that prevailing ethos of the genre by turning Medea, Jason's love interest in the story, into a heroic figure and Jason himself into her emasculated victim. The present study charts this plotline as it unfolds in the...
Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes #175
Language:EnglishPublisher:de GruyterISBN-13:9783111562544ISBN-10:3111562549UPC:9783111562544Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient and ClassicalSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.411Product ID:SC8CEZMZ02
Raymond Marks, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.
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