<< message forwarded by listowner >> From: "Ika Willis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am currently researching a paper on gender issues in the Georgics, looking especially at the 'laus ruris' in book 2 where the farmer has a disconcertingly disembodied wife (referred to as 'domus'/'home' rather than 'woman'/'wife'/etc) and at the Aristaeus- Orpheus epyllion where women suddenly come from all over the place to control the narrative - they rewrite myth (the nymph singing about Venus' *successful* affair with Mars) and it is Aristaeus' mother who sets everything in motion. This can perhaps be linked with ideas about the tension between Vergil's praise of the rural life v. his actual practice as an (urban? - certainly involved in city politics) poet, or ideas about the repression of 'the Greek' (and linked concepts - art, effeminacy etc) in the ideal hard-Roman life praised in the Georgics... This is all extremely simplistic, obviously. But if anyone can recommend any reading for me, or has any comments or suggestions about the issue, please get in touch. Cheers! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
