Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic. Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag leicht berieben, mit leichten Randl�ren, Fleck auf Vorsatz, sonst sehr gut und sauber / dust jacket slightly rubbed, with light marginal wear, stain on endpaper, otherwise very good and clean. - While interest in the poets of the Flavian period has been steadily growing, the role of women in the epic poems of Silius Italiens and Statius has been little studied. Motherhood and. the Other offers the first substantial exploration of the role of motherhood and female' foreign otherness in the Punica and tke Thebaid. Antony Augoustakis argues that the juxtaposition of Roman and foreign women as mothers expands our awareness of the poems� scope in relation to gender and ethnicity. By drawing on the theoretical apparatus of Julia Kristeva on motherhood and otherness, Augoustakis shows how the Flavian poets construct an idealised discourse on the empire�s own identity that at once crystallises but also destabilises the role that women command within the epic genre. The portrayal of female figures in the epics of the first century ad allows us to witness a change ofattitudes toward otherness: the peripherynow defines the centre, as the poets highlight the notions of otherness and motherhood in the narrative in order to reshape Romanness through representations of the other. In this rich and stimulating study, readers will find a unique exploration of the fluidity of gender and cultural hierarchies as the result of the manipulation of women�s actions and a lucid discussion of the role of gender, genre, and ideology in ancient Rome. / Contents List of Illustrations Preface Texts and Translations Used List of Abbreviations Introduction: Other and Same: Female Presence in Flavian Epic (Fe)Male perspectives on cosmopolitanism and identity Motherhood and the Other defined: Julia Kristeva in the chora of Strangers Epic within epic: Lemnos and Theban civil war in Statius� Thebaid Patrio-tic epic? Same and other in Silius� Punica 1 Mourning Endless: Female Otherness in Statius� Thebaid Defining the periphery: Thebes and Lemnos Between Lemnos and Argos: Hypsipyle�s transgressed boundaries Eumenidum antiquissima: Jocasta the warmonger or helpless bystander? In the chora of sisterhood: Antigone and Ismene�public gaze and private lament Lament and the poet: Boundaries (re)transgressed 2 Defining the Other: From altera patria to tellus mater in Silius Italicus� Punica Fathers, sons, and the poetics of patria Capua: Another Rome? A city in the periphery Saguntum as same and other: Breaking the bond with patria Rome Germana Elissae: A Carthaginian reborn The renewal of tellus 3 Comes ultima fati: Regulus� Encounter with Marcia�s Otherness in Punica 6 Regulus and the Punica: Bridging traditions? Literary convention or subversive speech? Lucan�s Marcia and the foreboding of doom Marcia�s Didoesque farewell�impenetrability wounded �Securing� the future Transgressing against nature: The serpent and Virgil�s Camilla Fashioning a new generation: Marcia �sowing the seed� Li occhi casti di Marzia tua: Embedding Marcia in the Punica 4 Playing the Same: Roman and Non-Roman Mothers in the Punica Edonis ut Pangaea: Imilce�s art of dissuasion Ne bella pavescas: Mothers as �educators� and the regeneration of the female Tempus cognoscere manes femineos: The female chora in the geography of the Underworld Caelicolum Phrygia genetricem sede: A foreign goddess in Rome Epilogue: Virgins and (M)others: Appropriations of Same and Other in Flavian Rome Bibliography Indices. ISBN 9780199584413