Re-Textualizing Lucretia: Cultural Subversion in the City of God
Augustine devoted a section of the first book of the City of God to a critical reconsideration of the ancient story of the rape and suicide of the Roman matron Lucretia. Four centuries earlier, Livy had canonized Lucretia as an exemplum virtutis: in the Augustan age Lucretia embodied ideas about fem...
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
1994
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Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 1994, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 53-70 |
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