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Seeking the Mothers in Ovid’s Heroides: Seeking the Mothers in Ovid’s Heroides

Seeking the Mothers in Ovid’s Heroides
Seeking the Mothers in Ovid’s Heroides

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Notes

table of contents
  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Note on Abbreviations, Texts and Translations, and Transliteration
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I: The Name of the Mother
    1. 1. A Traditional Matrona? Between Motherhood and Heroism: Penelope in Heroides 1
    2. 2. To Mētros Onoma: Deianira, Hercules, and Hyllus in Heroides 9
  5. Part II: The Body of the Mother: Incest, Abjection, and Literary Childbirth
    1. 3. The Reconceptualization of (Step)Motherhood: Phaedra in Heroides 4
    2. 4. The Abject Body: Canace in Heroides 11
    3. 5. Pregnancy, Écriture Féminine, and the Birth of the Text: Dido in Heroides 7
  6. Part III: Motherhood in Fieri
    1. 6. Motherhood, Metamorphosis, and Autopoiesis: Medea in Heroides 12
    2. 7. The Self and the (M)Other: Hypsipyle in Heroides 6
  7. Epilogue: Maternal Environments
  8. Works Cited
  9. Index

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First published 2024 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Martorana, Simona, 1992– author.

Title: Seeking the mothers in Ovid’s “Heroides” /Simona Martorana.

Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2023053238 (print) | LCCN 2023053239 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501777066 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501777073 (epub) | ISBN 9781501777080 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Ovid, 43 B.C.–17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Heroides. | Motherhood in literature. | Women in literature. | Classical literature—History and criticism.

Classification: LCC PA6519.H7 M25 2024 (print) | LCC PA6519.H7 (ebook) | DDC 873/.01—dc23/eng/20240403

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023053238

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023053239

Cover art: Anselm Feuerbach, Medea (detail), oil on canvas, 1870. Collection of Neue Pinakothek, Munich.

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