Brill's Companion to Episodes of 'Heroic' Rape/Abduction in Classical Antiquity and Their Reception

Rosanna Lauriola

ISBN 10: 9004505768 / ISBN 13: 9789004505766

Published by Brill, NL, 2022

About this Item

Sexual violence is one of the oldest and most difficult problems of humankind. Many of the "love stories" in Classical Greek and Roman Myth are tales of rape, a fact that is often casually glossed over in both popular and scholarly treatments of these narratives. Through a careful selection of stories, this book provides a deep exploration of rape in Classical Myth as well as in the works of art and literature that have responded to it through the millennia. The volume offers an essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand sexual violence from different perspectives and through an interdisciplinary approach, which includes Trauma Theory and Evolutionary Psychology.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Brill's Companion to Episodes of 'Heroic' Rape/Abduction in Classical Antiquity and Their Reception
• Publisher: Brill, NL
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004505768
• ISBN 13: 9789004505766
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.5W x 2.9H x 23.5D centimeters 15.5 centimeters width by 2.9 centimeters height by 23.5 centimeters depth
• Weight: 745 grams

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Synopsis

Sexual violence is one of the oldest and most difficult problems of humankind. Many of the “love stories” in Classical Greek and Roman Myth are tales of rape, a fact that is often casually glossed over in both popular and scholarly treatments of these narratives. Through a careful selection of stories, this book provides a deep exploration of rape in Classical Myth as well as in the works of art and literature that have responded to it through the millennia. The volume offers an essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand sexual violence from different perspectives and through an interdisciplinary approach, which includes Trauma Theory and Evolutionary Psychology.

About the Author

Rosanna Lauriola (Ph.D. Greek and Latin Philology, University of Firenze, Italy) is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Randolph Macon College (Virginia, USA). She has published many papers, book chapters, and some books on a variety of authors and topics of Greek literature and its reception, including Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Euripides (2015) and Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Sophocles (2017).