Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides"
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Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides"

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Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides"

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Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides" explores Ovid's reconceptualization of the heroines' maternal experience. Rather than aligning them with the stereotypical roles of Roman women, motherhood enables the Ovidian heroines to challenge traditional norms with irreverent perspectives on gender categories and familial relationships. To confront these perspectives and overcome the dialectic between the (male) voice of the poet and the (female) voice of the heroines, Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides" argues for a form of polyphonic "cooperation" between the two voices, thus providing new angles on ironical discourse and gender fluidity within the Heroides.

By reading the Heroides both through feminist theory and against Ovid's poetic production, Simona Martorana provides a novel approach to describe how motherhood enhances the heroines' agency, drawing on works of Kristeva, Irigaray, Butler, Mulvey, Cavarero, Braidotti, and Ettinger. The application of theory is flexible throughout Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides" and tailored to the nuances of specific passages rather than being uniformly imposed on the ancient text.

Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides" reveals how the irony, ambiguity, and polyphony intrinsic to Ovid's poetry are amplified by the heroines' poetic voices. Martorana breaks new ground by incorporating contemporary feminist theories within the analysis of the Heroides and provides an original comprehensive analysis of motherhood that encompasses other Ovidian works, Latin poetry, and classical literature more broadly.

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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9781501777073
Topic
History
Subtopic
Roman Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Note on Abbreviations, Texts and Translations, and Transliteration
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I: The Name of the Mother
  5. Part II: The Body of the Mother: Incest, Abjection, and Literary Childbirth
  6. Part III: Motherhood in Fieri
  7. Epilogue: Maternal Environments
  8. Works Cited
  9. Index