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The rapes of Lucretia : a myth and its transformations / Ian Donaldson.

Title
The rapes of Lucretia : a myth and its transformations / Ian Donaldson.
Author
Donaldson, Ian
Publication
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1982.

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Description
xii, 203 p., [16] p. of plates : ports.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Lucretia > In literature
  • Mythology, Roman, in literature
  • Rape in literature
  • Rome > In literature
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [169]-195.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
I. Lucretia. The shaping of the myth: victims and victors -- The questioning of the myth: Augustine's 'dilemma' -- 'A theme for disputation': Shakespeare's Lucrece -- 'Another Lucretia': Clarissa and the dilemmas of rape -- Joking about rape: the myth inverted -- II. Lucius Junius Brutus. The shaping of the myth: rape and revolution -- The questioning of the myth: the judgement of Brutus -- III. An epilogue- and an analogue. Heroism transformed: Lucretia, Brutus, and Cato of Utica.
ISBN
0198126387
LCCN
^^^81021731^//r88
OCLC
  • 8112934
  • 990002186510203941
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library