Roman Literature Gender and Reception

<p>This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history literature gender identifications and roles and subsequent interpretations of the republican and imperial Roman past. The prose and poetry of Cicero and Petronius Lucretius Virgil and Ovid receive fresh interpretations; pagan and Christian texts are re-examined from feminist and imaginative perspectives; genres of epic didactic and tragedy are re-examined; and subsequent uses and re-uses of the ancient heritage are probed with new attention: Shakespeare Nineteenth Century American theater and contemporary productions involving prisoners and veterans. </p><p>Comprising nineteen essays collectively honoring the feminist Classical scholar Judith Hallett this book will interest the Classical scholar the ancient historian the student of Reception Studies and feminists interested in all periods. The authors from the United States Britain France and Switzerland are authorities in one or more of these fields and chapters range from the late Republic to the late Empire to the present.</p>