Cretan women

Description:

Armstrong investigates the myths of three Cretan women as they appear in Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Empire. She offers detailed readings of the most prominent treatments of the stories, alongside a thematic investigation of the ideas of memory, wildness, and morality which recur so prominently in the tales.

subjects: Ariadne (Greek mythology),  History and criticism,  Latin poetry,  Mythology, Greek, in literature,  Pasiphae (Greek mythology),  Phaedra (Greek mythology),  Women and literature,  Women in literature,  Latin poetry, history and criticism

Places: Rome