Ovid's tragic heroines : gender abjection and generic code-switching /

"This book explores the reception of the fifth-century B.C.E. Greek tragic heroines Phaedra and Medea in the poems Ars Amatoria, Heroides, and Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C.E.-17/18 C.E.) and applies theoretical approaches developed by the feminist theorists Julia...

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