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""Tracing the presentation, from the earliest tellings of their stories to our own day, of four of the many mortal women of Graeco-Roman myth on whom Zeus/Jupiter cast a lustful eye, with an indignation that blazes from every page, Lauriola indicts the king of the gods as a serial rapist (along with several other male gods and heroes), and – more importantly – indicts also the overwhelming majority of poets, artists, critics and scholars whose evasions and euphemisms have distracted attention from the criminality of the perpetrators and the suffering of their victims – and are still doing so."" Alan Sommerstein, University of Nottingham, UK. ' “Brill's Companion to Episodes of ‘Heroic’ Rape/Abduction in Classical Antiquity and Their Reception” is overall a strong analysis of ancient myth. It treats ancient examples of violence with meticulous attention that they have up to this point rarely been afforded in scholarship. Lauriola’s book will be useful to academics who wish to analyze ancient myth through an outlook that centers women’s experiences, and it is applaudable for its tact and respect.' Hannah E. Gadway, The Harvard Crimson, July 29 2023.

"""Tracing the presentation, from the earliest tellings of their stories to our own day, of four of the many mortal women of Graeco-Roman myth on whom Zeus/Jupiter cast a lustful eye, with an indignation that blazes from every page, Lauriola indicts the king of the gods as a serial rapist (along with several other male gods and heroes), and – more importantly – indicts also the overwhelming majority of poets, artists, critics and scholars whose evasions and euphemisms have distracted attention from the criminality of the perpetrators and the suffering of their victims – and are still doing so."" Alan Sommerstein, University of Nottingham, UK."

"""Tracing the presentation, from the earliest tellings of their stories to our own day, of four of the many mortal women of Graeco-Roman myth on whom Zeus/Jupiter cast a lustful eye, with an indignation that blazes from every page, Lauriola indicts the king of the gods as a serial rapist (along with several other male gods and heroes), and – more importantly – indicts also the overwhelming majority of poets, artists, critics and scholars whose evasions and euphemisms have distracted attention from the criminality of the perpetrators and the suffering of their victims – and are still doing so."" Alan Sommerstein, University of Nottingham, UK. ' “Brill's Companion to Episodes of ‘Heroic’ Rape/Abduction in Classical Antiquity and Their Reception” is overall a strong analysis of ancient myth. It treats ancient examples of violence with meticulous attention that they have up to this point rarely been afforded in scholarship. Lauriola’s book will be useful to academics who wish to analyze ancient myth through an outlook that centers women’s experiences, and it is applaudable for its tact and respect.' Hannah E. Gadway, The Harvard Crimson, July 29 2023."

Tracing the presentation, from the earliest tellings of their stories to our own day, of four of the many mortal women of Graeco-Roman myth on whom Zeus/Jupiter cast a lustful eye, with an indignation that blazes from every page, Lauriola indicts the king of the gods as a serial rapist (along with several other male gods and heroes), and - more importantly - indicts also the overwhelming majority of poets, artists, critics and scholars whose evasions and euphemisms have distracted attention from the criminality of the perpetrators and the suffering of their victims - and are still doing so. Alan Sommerstein, University of Nottingham, UK.

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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).

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