This is the first book-length study to reconstruct the role of women in the epic poems of the Flavian period of Latin literature. Antony Augoustakis examines the role of female characters from the perspective of Julia Kristeva's theories on foreign otherness and motherhood to underscore the on-going negotiation between same and other in the Roman literary imagination as a telling reflection on the construction of Roman identity and of gender and cultural hierarchies.
Author(s): Antony Augoustakis
Series: Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 320
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
Texts and Translations Used......Page 14
List of Abbreviations......Page 15
(Fe)Male perspectives on cosmopolitanism and identity......Page 16
Motherhood and the Other defined: Julia Kristeva in the chôra of Strangers......Page 29
Epic within epic: Lemnos and Theban civil war in Statius’ Thebaid......Page 36
Patrio-tic epic? Same and other in Silius’ Punica......Page 38
1 Mourning Endless: Female Otherness in Statius’ Thebaid......Page 45
Defining the periphery: Thebes and Lemnos......Page 49
Between Lemnos and Argos: Hypsipyle’s transgressed boundaries......Page 52
Eumenidum antiquissima: Jocasta the warmonger or helpless bystander?......Page 77
In the chôra of sisterhood: Antigone and Ismene—public gaze and private lament......Page 83
Lament and the poet: Boundaries (re)transgressed......Page 90
2 Defining the Other: From altera patria to tellus mater in Silius Italicus’ Punica......Page 107
Fathers, sons, and the poetics of patria......Page 112
Capua: Another Rome? A city in the periphery......Page 124
Saguntum as same and other: Breaking the bond with patria Rome......Page 128
Germana Elissae: A Carthaginian reborn......Page 151
The renewal of tellus......Page 159
3 Comes ultima fati: Regulus’ Encounter with Marcia’s Otherness in Punica 6......Page 171
Regulus and the Punica: Bridging traditions?......Page 174
Literary convention or subversive speech?......Page 179
Lucan’s Marcia and the foreboding of doom......Page 182
Marcia’s Didoesque farewell—impenetrability wounded......Page 191
‘Securing’ the future......Page 193
Transgressing against nature: The serpent and Virgil’s Camilla......Page 197
Fashioning a new generation: Marcia ‘sowing the seed’......Page 203
Li occhi casti di Marzia tua: Embedding Marcia in the Punica......Page 207
4 Playing the Same: Roman and Non-Roman Mothers in the Punica......Page 211
Edonis ut Pangaea: Imilce’s art of dissuasion......Page 213
Ne bella pavescas: Mothers as ‘educators’ and the regeneration of the female......Page 228
Tempus cognoscere manes femineos: The female chôra in the geography of the Underworld......Page 236
Caelicolum Phrygia genetricem sede: A foreign goddess in Rome......Page 244
Epilogue: Virgins and (M)others: Appropriations of Same and Other in Flavian Rome......Page 253
Bibliography......Page 269
Indices......Page 302
A......Page 315
B......Page 316
C......Page 317
D......Page 318
F......Page 319
H......Page 320
J......Page 321
M......Page 322
N......Page 323
P......Page 324
R......Page 325
S......Page 326
T......Page 327
V......Page 328
Z......Page 329
