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The Erotics of Domination: Male Desire and the Mistress in Latin Love Poetry

By Ellen Greene

Book information

Year
2010
ISBN
9780806140506, 080614050X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2525370 bytes)
Series
Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture 37
Pages
142\161
Time added
2021-12-07 22:29:05

Description

The study of women in antiquity is a well-established area of research in the classics. In The Erotics of Domination, Ellen Greene re-examines long-held scholarly attitudes concerning the representation of male sexual desire and female subjection in the Latin love poetry of Catullus, Propertius, and Ovid. Examining first-person poetic personae that have often been romanticized by critics, Greene finds that male sexuality is consistently threatened as moral resolve and social status are undermined by desires that render men passively "womanish": powerless and emotional.

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