TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pyy,Elina
TI  - Women and War in Roman Epic
T2  - The Language of Classical Literature
SN  - 9789004443457
AV  - PA3001 
U1  - 880.09 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL, 
KW  - Classical literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - In Women and War in Roman Epic , Elina Pyy discusses the narrative and ideological functions of gender in the works of Virgil, Lucan, Statius, Silius Italicus and Valerius Flaccus. By examining the themes of violence, death, guilt, grief, and anger in their epics, she offers an account of the intertextual tradition of the genre and its socio-political background. Through a combination of classical narratology and Julia Kristeva's subjectivity theory, Pyy scrutinises how gendered marginality is constructed in the genre and how it contributes to the fashioning of Roman imperial identity. Focusing on the ambiguous elements of epic, the study looks beyond the binary oppositions between the Self and the Other, male and female, and Roman and barbarian
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004443457
ER  -