Women and War in Roman Epic

‎Contents
‎Acknowledgements
‎Chapter 1. Introduction
	‎1. Subjects, Abjects and Others: The Narrative Construction of Subject Positions in War Epic
‎Chapter 2. Origins of War
	‎1. Casus belli: War-Bringing Marriages and Ill-Omened Brides
	‎2. Warmongering Furies and Active Agitators
	‎3. Divine Interventions and Semiotic furor: Virgil’s Amata and Turnus
‎Chapter 3. Victims of War: Gendered Dynamics of Suffering
	‎1. The Victimised Female Body and the Construction of Roman Identity
	‎2. The Victim’s Viewpoint: Female Gaze and Epic Subjectivity
	‎3. Marginal Mothers? The Threatening Overtones of Maternal Fear
	‎4. Grief, Lament and the Dissolution of Differences
‎Chapter 4. ‘Playing Supermen’: The Manly Matrons of Roman Epic
	‎1. Mentem aequare viros et laudis poscere partem: Female Groups in Defense of Their Cities
	‎2. Fida coniunx—comes ultima fati?
	‎3. Da mihi castra sequi: The Female Intrusion in the World of War
‎Chapter 5. Means of Production or Weapons of Destruction? Gender and Violence in Roman War Epic
	‎1. Manly Men versus Effeminate Others: Armed Violence in the Construction of Romanitas
	‎2. Women in Arms: The Absolute Other?
	‎3. Bellatrix virgo: An Outsider or an Insider?
	‎4. Fragile Warriors and the Questioning of the Male Subject Position
‎Chapter 6. Sabine Successors? The Failure of Female Mediation
	‎1. The Futility of mora, the Failure of Mediation: Mixing and Juxtaposing Epic with Historiography
	‎2. Functional Failures: Epic Women Tangled Up with War
‎Chapter 7. Dynamics of Death
	‎1. Death, Power and Narrative Control: Creusa, Dido, and Cleopatra
	‎2. Getting Rid of the Queen: The Archetype of regina moritura
‎Chapter 8. Conclusion
‎Bibliography
‎General Index