Reproducing Rome: Motherhood in Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, and Statius PDF
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OXFORD STUDIES IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND GENDER THEORY GeneralEditors DAVID KONSTAN ALISON SHARROCK OxfordStudiesinClassicalLiteratureandGenderTheorypublishessubstan- tialworksoffeministliteraryresearch,whichofferagender-sensitiveperspec- tive across the whole range of Classical literature. The field is delimited chronologically by Homer and Augustine, and culturally by the Greek and Latin languages. Within these parameters, the series welcomes studies of anygenre. Reproducing Rome Motherhood in Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, and Statius MAIRÉAD McAULEY 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries #MairéadMcAuley2016 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2016 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2015935258 ISBN 978–0–19–965936–4 Printedandboundby CPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. For Lawrence Acknowledgements Thisbookhasbeenalongtimeingestation.IthasspannedaCambridgePhD, postdoctoral fellowships at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and the University of Johannesburg, a Junior Research Fellowship at King’s College Cambridge, and a lectureship at University College London. I am indebtedtoalltheseinstitutionsfortheirsupport. Along the way my work was delayed, detoured, and eventually stimulated by the arrival of two sons, not to mention a peripatetic existence straddling two continents. I am especially grateful to King’s College Cambridge and University College London for their vital institutional support in this regard. I alsoneed to thank a number of individuals for stickingwith this seemingly never-ending labour. First John Henderson inspired and midwifed it as a PhD—his immense intellectual and personal generosity is mainly to blame for the fact that this work didn’t end up as another unfinished regret. The comments of OUP’s anonymous readers helped improve the end product. I amparticularlygratefultotheserieseditors,especiallyAlisonSharrockforher always-astute judgements and patient support over its long delays, while her own work on gender remains a vital intertext. I thank all my colleagues at UCL,inparticularGesineManuwaldforhersupportandFiachraMacGóráin, who generously read parts of the manuscript and whose criticisms were characteristically perspicacious. Others who read and/or offered encourage- ment over the years include William Fitzgerald, Emily Gowers, Jonathan Mannering, and Dunstan Lowe. Oliver Schwazer helped proof much of the typescriptatthelaststages.Iamgratefultoall,andanyerrorsthatremainare ofcoursemyown. Inabookaboutorigins,itwouldbehubrisnottoacknowledgeadebttomy own:I’m deeply gratefulto myparents fortheirfaith in me andmy idiosyn- cratic choice of career. Others have lifted my game along the way—I’ll mentionafew.IfeelprivilegedtoknowRachelMalkin,towhomIamgrateful inmorewaysthanIcanpithilyexpresshere.RowanBoysonhasbeenagreat friend,amazingcook,andhospitablefellowtravelleralongthebywaysofearly careeracademia.InSouthAfrica,AndreaDoylehasbeenimportanttomeas an academic colleague and friend. Both she and John Hilton have supported mywork,whiletheirowncommitmenttoteachingandresearchingClassicsin relatively difficult circumstances is humbling and inspiring. I would also like tothankCliveGreenstoneandKiraErwinforallthosebraais. Intheend,mygreatestdebtistoLawrenceHamilton.I’vefounditimpos- sibletocomeupwitharhetoricalencapsulationformyloveandgratitude—he encouraged,cajoled,andintheendpushedthisbook’scompletionthroughthe viii Acknowledgements chaosofpregnancies,childbirth,andfamilylife.Iknowhe’llbegladfinallyto seethebackofit,butneverthelessI’veputhimatthefront,asitsdedicatee. Chunks of several chapters have been published elsewhere. Much of Chapter2 appeared in EuGeSTa 2012; Chapter4’s analysis of Andromache formed part of an article that appeared in a ‘Seneca’ special issue of the Canadian Comparative Literature Review 2013; part of Chapter5 was pub- lished in Helios 2012; a couple of paragraphs from Chapter7 appeared in an articlewithadifferentfocusinAkroterion2011.Iamgratefultothesejournals forpermissiontoreprinthere. Contents TextsandAbbreviations xi 1. Introduction:SeekingtheMotherinEarlyImperial RomanLiterature 1 Introduction 1 RomanMotherhoodandModernTheory 16 AugustanMaternities 28 PART I AUGUSTAN EPIC 2. MaternalImpressions:ReadingMotherhoodinVirgil’sAeneid andGeorgics 55 Misconceptions 55 ReproductionandRepressionintheAeneid 66 atnonCyrene...:MaternalKnowledgeintheGeorgics 94 3. Matermorphoses:MotherhoodandtheOvidianEpicSubject 114 Births 118 Revenge 133 MourningandMaternalPower 142 MaternityandtheOvidianAestheticofExcess 159 PART II SENECA 4. TheTextualMother:Seneca’sConsolatioadHelviamMatrem 169 IntimateTextualRelations 173 MaternalGriefandMaternalVirtus 183 TheMotherMirror 198 5. ThePoliticsofMaternalRepresentationinSeneca’sMedea andPhaedra 201 RomanMedea 207 PhaedraandMedea 228 6. WheretheUnbornLie:TheUncannyMothersofSeneca’sTroades (or,WaysofReadingaMotherinSenecanTragedy) 257 MaternalVoicesoftheAftermath:HecubaandAndromache 258 TwoSenecas?PhilosophyandPsychoanalysis 272 ThinkingwithAndromache 280
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