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The Roman Poetry of Love: Elegy and Politics in a Time of ...

The Roman Poetry of Love: Elegy and Politics in a Time of ...

Efrossini Spentzou

Elegy and Politics in a Time of Revolution Efrossini Spentzou. Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square London WC1B 3DP UK 1385 Broadway New York NY 10018 USA www.bloomsbury.com  ...
Readers and Writers in Ovid's Heroides:Transgressions of ...

Readers and Writers in Ovid's Heroides:Transgressions of ...

Efrossini Spentzou

This is the first book-length study to reconstruct the experiences of the abandoned heroines of the Heroides, which have been largely ignored by past criticism.
Writing Passion: A Catullus Reader 1st Edition

Writing Passion: A Catullus Reader 1st Edition

Ronnie Ancona

I would also like to acknowledge permission to reprint my translation of Sappho Poem 31 that appeared in my article “The Untouched Self: Sapphic and Catullan Muses in Horace Odes 1.22,” in Efrossini Spentzou and Don Fowler, eds., ...
Reproducing Rome: Motherhood in Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, and ...

Reproducing Rome: Motherhood in Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, and ...

Mairéad McAuley

... there is an increasing emphasis on other forms of distinction besides descent and heredity—adopted relations, or wealth, taste, learning, for example, as celebrated in the Silvae.127 Efrossini Spentzou and Richard Alston have observed the ...
Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy

Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy

Hunter H. Gardner

Partly because of the chora's association with the confinement, repetition, and subversive potential of women's time, it has appealed to Efrossini Spentzou ( 2003) as a means of explaining the isolated space of the abandoned woman in Ovid's ...
Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989

Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989

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12 Philhellenic Imperialism and the Invention of the Classical Past: Twentyfirst Century Reimaginings of Odysseus in the Greek War for Independence Efrossini Spentzou In 2008 Isidoros Zourgos published Aidonopita (A Nightingale's Pie),1 a ...
Untutored Lines: The Making of the English Epyllion

Untutored Lines: The Making of the English Epyllion

William Weaver

Several recent studies of the Heroides focus on the composition of the collection as a whole. See Joseph Farrell, 'Reading and Writing the Heroides', Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 98 (1998): 307–38; Efrossini Spentzou, Readers and ...
Directory of Web Sites

Directory of Web Sites

Graham Bennett

... Cuthbert Elisabeth Hallett Carl Hanson Tim Morris Stephen Pavlovich Pete Shone Efrossini Spentzou Amphibians & Reptiles Aldabra Tortoise http://www. seaworld.org/animal_bytes/aldabra_tor toiseab.html Part of the Statf and Contributors.
Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry

Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry

Ronnie Ancona

I Silenced Subjects Ovid and the Heroines in Exile Efrossini Spentzou Silence and the Self Already three years in exile, Ovid opened his fifth and last book of the Tristia with an address to "his devoted reader" (nostri studiose, 1) that draws a  ...
The Roman Poetry of Love: Elegy and Politics in a Time of ...

The Roman Poetry of Love: Elegy and Politics in a Time of ...

Efrossini Spentzou

... Jason König Greek and Roman Historians, Timothy E. Duff Greek and Roman Medicine, Helen King Greek Sculpture, Georgina Muskett Greek Tragedy: An Introduction, Marion Baldock Greek Vases, Elizabeth Moignard Homer: The Iliad,  ...

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