Caesar or Cleopatra? Lucan’s Tragic Queen

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Figures VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Masculinity, Dress and Body
6. Ionians, Egyptians, Thracians: Ethnicity and Gender in Attic Vase-Painting 17
7. Dress, Ethnic Identity, and Gender in the Achaemenid Empire: Greek Views on the Persians, and Political Ideology in the Classical Time 27
8. Part II: Gender, Political Leaders and Ethnic Identity
9. What Artemisia Knew: The Political Intelligence of Artemisia of Halicarnassus 49
10. Cicero’s Verres, Verres’ Women 69
11. Identities and Ethnicities in the Punic Wars: Livy’s Portrait of the Carthaginian Sophonisba 93
12. Part III: Cleopatra’s Survival and Metamorphosis in Roman Poetry
13. Gendered Intertextuality: Feminizing the Alexandrian Models in Propertius’ Actian Poetry 115
14. Caesar or Cleopatra? Lucan’s Tragic Queen 135
15. Part IV: Love, Oriental Ethnicity and Gender in Roman Literature
16. The Indiscreet Charm of the Exotic: Amores Peregrini as Explorations of Identity in Roman Poetry 155
17. Latin Literary Lenses on Phoenician Female Speech 175
18. Babylonians in Thebes: Some Ovidian Stories of Barbarians and Foreigners 195
19. Part V: Constructing or Deconstructing Female Ethnicity in Late Antiquity
20. Thessalian Witches: An Ethnic Construct in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 219
21. Exemplary Gallic Wives in the Erotikos and Mulierum Virtutes of Plutarch: Stereotypes and Comparisons 235
22. Africa, famula Romae: Constructions of Ethnic Identity in Claudian’s Panegyrics 251
23. List of Contributors 265
24. General Index 267
25. Index Locorum 279