This essay presents an alternative reading of the transformation of Arachne, with implications for the interpretation of the episode as a whole. On the basis of what Minerva herself says before sprinkling Arachne with the transformative elixir, and of the elixir’s effects as Ovid describes them, I a...
This article lays out several feminist strategies for translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses, arguing that these enable translators to clear away the patriarchal bias that has influenced previous translations of this epic. Using the Callisto episode as a case study, I show how major English translations o...
This paper analyses the homoerotic aspect of Propertius 1.20 and its presentation of the myth of Hylas, the lost beloved of Hercules. It argues that Propertius reacts to the portrait of ‘Greek love’ that is found in the two surviving lengthy versions of this myth in Apollonius’ Argonautica and Theoc...
While in Virgil’s Aeneid mothers are evoked sporadically only to be marginalized by the epic’s forward narrative thrust, in his Metamorphoses Ovid pushes mothers centre stage, as subjects and protagonists of their own extended narratives, privileging rather than repressing their voices. This article...
Ellen Oliensis Freud s Rome psychoanalysis and Latin poetry Cambridge; New York Cambridge University Press coll "Roman literature and its contexts" 2009 xi 148 p ...
Ellen Oliensis Freud s Rome psychoanalysis and Latin poetry Cambridge; New York Cambridge University Press coll "Roman literature and its contexts" 2009 xi 148 p ...
Ellen Oliensis Freud s Rome psychoanalysis and Latin poetry Cambridge; New York Cambridge University Press coll "Roman literature and its contexts" 2009 xi 148 p ...
Ellen Oliensis Freud s Rome psychoanalysis and Latin poetry Cambridge; New York Cambridge University Press coll "Roman literature and its contexts" 2009 xi 148 p ...
Ellen Oliensis Freud s Rome psychoanalysis and Latin poetry Cambridge; New York Cambridge University Press coll "Roman literature and its contexts" 2009 xi 148 p ...
Ellen Oliensis Freud s Rome psychoanalysis and Latin poetry Cambridge; New York Cambridge University Press coll "Roman literature and its contexts" 2009 xi 148 p ...
