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From Latin love poetry's dominating and enslaving beloveds, to modern popular culture's infamous Cleopatras and Messalinas, representations of the Roman mistress (or the mistress of Romans) have brought into question both ancient and modern genders and political systems. The Roman Mistress makes an important and original contribution simultaneously to feminist scholarship on antiquity, the classical tradition, and cultural studies.
| List of illustrations | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | Love Poetry | |
| 1 | Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy | 11 |
| 2 | Written Women: Propertius' scripta puella (2.10-13) | 46 |
| 3 | The Elegiac Woman at Rome: Propertius Book 4 | 78 |
| 4 | Reading Female Flesh: Ovid Amores 3.1 | 115 |
| 5 | Taking the Woman's Part: Gender and Scholarship on Love Elegy | 155 |
| Pt. 2 | Reception | |
| 6 | Meretrix regina: Augustan Cleopatras | 195 |
| 7 | Oriental Vamp: Cleopatra 1910s | 244 |
| 8 | Glamour Girl: Cleopatra 1930s-1960s | 279 |
| 9 | Meretrix Augusta: Messalina 1870s-1920s | 321 |
| 10 | Suburban Feminist: Messalina 1930s-1970s | 352 |
| Bibliography | 391 | |
| Index of Classical Passages Cited | 429 | |
| General Index | 437 |
Overview
From Latin love poetry's dominating and enslaving beloveds, to modern popular culture's infamous Cleopatras and Messalinas, representations of the Roman mistress (or the mistress of Romans) have brought into question both ancient and modern genders and political systems. The Roman Mistress makes an important and original contribution simultaneously to feminist scholarship on antiquity, the classical tradition, and cultural studies.