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The figure of Anna Perenna embodies the complexity and richness of the Roman mythological tradition. In exploring Anna Perenna, the contributors apply different perspectives and critical methods to an array of compelling evidence drawn from central texts, monuments, coins, and inscriptions that encapsulate Rome’s shifting artistic and political landscape. As a collection, Uncovering Anna Perenna provides a unique examination that represents the interdisciplinary intersection between Roman literature, history, and culture. The assembled chapters offer thought-provoking and insightful discussions written by specialists in Roman myth and religion, literary studies, and ancient history. A convergence of different perspectives within the collection, including comparative literature, gender and sexuality, literary criticism, and reception, results in a rich and varied investigation. Organized into four parts, the volume explores Anna along four conceptual lines: her liminal nature as a Carthaginian figure coopted into Rome’s literary, mythological, and artistic heritage; her capacity as a Roman goddess and nymph; her political and cultural associations with plebeian and populist ideology; and her intriguing influence on James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

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Author:   Dr. Gwynaeth McIntyre (University of Otago, New Zealand) ,  Dr Sarah McCallum (University of Arizona, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.367kg
ISBN:  

9781350174061

ISBN 10:   1350174068
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   23 July 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Anna and the Plebs: A Synthesis of Primary Evidence - T.P. Wiseman (University of Exeter, UK) From Carthage to Rome 1. Rivalry and Revelation: Ovid’s Elegiac Revision of Virgilian Allusion - Sarah McCallum (University of Arizona, USA) 2. Calendar Girl: Anna Perenna Between the Fasti and the Punica - James S. McIntyre (Cambridge University Press, UK) 3. Not Just Another Fertility Goddess: Searching for Anna in Art - Gwynaeth McIntyre (University of Otago, New Zealand) Anna and her nymphs 4. Anna, Water and Her Imminent Deification in Aeneid 4 - David J. Wright (Rutgers University, USA) 5. How to Become a Hero: Gendering the Apotheosis of Ovid’s Anna Perenna - A. Everett Beek (University of Memphis, USA) 6. Instability and Permanence in Ceremonial Epigraphy: The Example of Anna Perenna - Anna Blennow (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Champion of the Plebs 7. Ovid’s Anna Perenna and the Coin of Gaius Annius - Teresa Ramsby (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) 8. Infiltrating Julian History: Anna Perenna at Lavinium and Bovillae - Carole Newlands (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) The Afterlife of Anna Perenna 9. Riverrun: Channeling Anna Perenna in Finnegans Wake - Justin Hudak (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Bibliography Index List of Contributors

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This is the first volume-length, comprehensive study of Anna Perenna, a Roman divinity with a complex identity and firm yet insufficiently defined impact on the Roman civic and cultural experience. The individual studies comprising the book offer expert interpretations of the various manifestations in literature, archaeology and material culture in general, of a Roman goddess whose fluid identity parallels Rome's ever evolving cultural and political experience.

This is the first volume-length, comprehensive study of Anna Perenna, a Roman divinity with a complex identity and firm yet insufficiently defined impact on the Roman civic and cultural experience. The individual studies comprising the book offer expert interpretations of the various manifestations in literature, archaeology and material culture in general, of a Roman goddess whose fluid identity parallels Rome's ever evolving cultural and political experience. -- SOPHIA PAPAIOANNOU, Professor of Latin Literature, The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Presents very interesting and thorough study on Anna Perenna. * Electrum * This is the first volume-length, comprehensive study of Anna Perenna, a Roman divinity with a complex identity and firm yet insufficiently defined impact on the Roman civic and cultural experience. The individual studies comprising the book offer expert interpretations of the various manifestations in literature, archaeology and material culture in general, of a Roman goddess whose fluid identity parallels Rome's ever evolving cultural and political experience. -- SOPHIA PAPAIOANNOU, Professor of Latin Literature, The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece The book offers the slopes of reflection fundamental , in taking a comprehensive bibliography existing but by adding in the same time new and interesting ideas that cross beautifully critical literary, religious history and studies gender. * Revue des Etudes Anciennes (Bloomsbury Translation) * A rare balanced and essential book to understand Turkey's young generation. * La Vanguardia (Bloomsbury Translation) *

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Gwynaeth McIntyre is Lecturer at University of Otago, New Zealand. Her research focuses on political, social, and religious history of Rome and the ways in which mythology and religion define particular communities. Sarah McCallum is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona, USA. Her research focuses on Greek and Roman language and literature, particularly epic, elegiac, and pastoral poetry.

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