Tragic Desire: Phaedra and her Heirs in Ovid

In this thesis, I explore the construction of female erotic desire in Ovid’s work as it is represented in the form of mythical heroines. Phaedra-like figures appear in Ovid’s poetry as dangerous spectres of wildly inappropriate and therefore destructive, bestial, or incestuous sexuality. I consider...

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Main Author: Westerhold, Jessica
Other Authors: Keith, Alison
Language:en_ca
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/31970