Bitchy ladies: domestic violence against ornatrices in Latin poetry—protest femininity, toxic femininity?
Marguerite Johnson
Abstract:In a revisionist historical environment in which scholars are increasingly invited to reconsider readings of classical texts from a philological perspective, or from an approach that privileges strict historicity, numerous interpretative possibilities present themselves. Working within such an environment, this study aims to delve into several literary expressions of domestic violence meted out to female slaves—explicitly, ornatrices—by female mistresses—particularly, elegiac dominae and satirical matronae—by … Show more
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