Cretan women : Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin poetry / Rebecca Armstrong.

"Cretan Women examines the ways in which myths about Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra come to be woven into the fabric of the Roman literary world. Both forming and conforming to the stereotype of the lustful Cretan woman, these are characters who walk the boundaries between the wild and the tame...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Armstrong, Rebecca, 1975-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:	Oxford classical monographs.
Subjects:	Phaedra > (Greek mythological character) Ariadne > (Greek mythological character) Latin poetry > History and criticism. Mythology, Greek, in literature. Women and literature > Rome. Women in literature. Pasiphae (Greek mythology) Latin poetry Mythology, Greek, in literature Women and literature Women in literature Rome (Empire) Criticism, interpretation, etc.