Uncovering Anna Perenna
«Presents very interesting and thorough study on Anna Perenna.»
Electrum
The figure of Anna Perenna embodies the complexity and richness of the Roman mythological tradition. In exploring Anna Perenna, the contributors apply different perspectives and critical methods to an array of compelling evidence drawn from central texts, monuments, coins, and inscriptions that encapsulate Rome’s shifting artistic and political landscape. Les mer
The assembled chapters offer thought-provoking and insightful discussions written by specialists in Roman myth and religion, literary studies, and ancient history. A convergence of different perspectives within the collection, including comparative literature, gender and sexuality, literary criticism, and reception, results in a rich and varied investigation. Organized into four parts, the volume explores Anna along four conceptual lines: her liminal nature as a Carthaginian figure coopted into Rome’s literary, mythological, and artistic heritage; her capacity as a Roman goddess and nymph; her political and cultural associations with plebeian and populist ideology; and her intriguing influence on James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 256
- ISBN
- 9781350048430
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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«Presents very interesting and thorough study on Anna Perenna.»
Electrum
«This is the first volume-length, comprehensive study of Anna Perenna, a Roman divinity with a complex identity and firm yet insufficiently defined impact on the Roman civic and cultural experience. The individual studies comprising the book offer expert interpretations of the various manifestations in literature, archaeology and material culture in general, of a Roman goddess whose fluid identity parallels Rome’s ever evolving cultural and political experience.»
SOPHIA PAPAIOANNOU, Professor of Latin Literature, The National and Kapodistrian University of Athen
«The book offers the slopes of reflection fundamental , in taking a comprehensive bibliography existing but by adding in the same time new and interesting ideas that cross beautifully critical literary, religious history and studies gender.»
Revue des Etudes Anciennes (Bloomsbury Translation)
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La Vanguardia (Bloomsbury Translation)