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Introduction 3 alison keith, mairéad mcauley, and alison sharrock 2 Uncanny Mothers in Roman Literature 26 mairéad mcauley Section 1: Mothers and Young Children 47 3 From Body to Behaviour: Maternal Transmission in the Ancient Greek World 49 florence gherchanoc 4 Νωδυνία: L'Oubli des Souffrances Maternelles et le Chant Théocritéen: d'Alcmène (Id. 24) à Bérénice (Id. 17) 63 florence klein 5 "Nimis … mater": Mother Plot and Epic Deviation in the Achilleid 80 federica bessone 6 Augustan Maternal Ideology: The Blended Families of Octavia and Venus 113 judith p. hallett Section 2: Mothers and Their Children's Marriages 127 7 Motherhood in Roman Epithalamia 129 henriette harich-schwarzbauer vi Contents 8 The Roman Mother-In-Law 140 alison sharrock Section 3: Mothers and Their Adult Children 167 9 Maximum Thebis (Romae?) scelus / maternus amor est (Oed. 629-30): Amour de la Mère et Inceste chez Sénèque 169 jacqueline fabre-serris 10 Mighty Mothers: Female Political Theorists in Euripides' Suppliant Women and Phoenician Women 193 giulia sissa 11 Wife, Mother, Philosopher: On the Symbolic Function of Augustine's Monnica 224 therese fuhrer Section 4: Mothers and the Death of Their Children 241 12 Virgilian Matres: From Maternal Lament to Female Sedition in the Aeneid 243 alison keith 13 Octavia: A Roman Mother in Mourning 270 valerie hope 14 Mothers as Dedicators 296 olympia bobou Abbreviations 321 Works Cited 323 Contributors 361 Index Locorum 363 General Index 373 MATERNAL CONCEPTIONS IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY This page intentionally left blank 10 Contents 10 Alison Keith, Mairéad McAuley, and Alison Sharrockout our anxiety, giving that zone of anguish a name: femininity, nonlanguage, body. But the name we give it before all others, the one we really hold answerable for it, is the mother." 20 The "mother" here stands for both the notion of a coherent self and testimony to its inherent instability, as demonstrated by the inevitable inadequacy or "falling short" of language as communication and signification.Kristeva is redescribing here, in psychoanalytic terms, a philosophical problem with the mother that has troubled modern feminist theory since its origins in the early twentieth century. What does motherhood mean -or rather, what is motherhood's relationship to meaning, particularly as it is defined by "patriarchal discourses" of the self, such as philosophy and literature? At the beginning of The Second Sex, her foundational work of feminist theory, Simone de Beauvoir sketched out the metaphorical meanings of the mother figure in Western culture:The Woman-Mother has a face of shadows: she is the chaos whence all have come and whither all must one day return; she is Nothingness. In the Night are confused together the multiple aspects of the world which daylight reveals: night of spirit confined in the generality and opacity of matter, night of sleep and of nothingness. In the deeps of the sea it is night: woman is the Mare tenebrarum, dreaded by navigators of old; it is night in the entrails of the earth....
Introduction 3 alison keith, mairéad mcauley, and alison sharrock 2 Uncanny Mothers in Roman Literature 26 mairéad mcauley Section 1: Mothers and Young Children 47 3 From Body to Behaviour: Maternal Transmission in the Ancient Greek World 49 florence gherchanoc 4 Νωδυνία: L'Oubli des Souffrances Maternelles et le Chant Théocritéen: d'Alcmène (Id. 24) à Bérénice (Id. 17) 63 florence klein 5 "Nimis … mater": Mother Plot and Epic Deviation in the Achilleid 80 federica bessone 6 Augustan Maternal Ideology: The Blended Families of Octavia and Venus 113 judith p. hallett Section 2: Mothers and Their Children's Marriages 127 7 Motherhood in Roman Epithalamia 129 henriette harich-schwarzbauer vi Contents 8 The Roman Mother-In-Law 140 alison sharrock Section 3: Mothers and Their Adult Children 167 9 Maximum Thebis (Romae?) scelus / maternus amor est (Oed. 629-30): Amour de la Mère et Inceste chez Sénèque 169 jacqueline fabre-serris 10 Mighty Mothers: Female Political Theorists in Euripides' Suppliant Women and Phoenician Women 193 giulia sissa 11 Wife, Mother, Philosopher: On the Symbolic Function of Augustine's Monnica 224 therese fuhrer Section 4: Mothers and the Death of Their Children 241 12 Virgilian Matres: From Maternal Lament to Female Sedition in the Aeneid 243 alison keith 13 Octavia: A Roman Mother in Mourning 270 valerie hope 14 Mothers as Dedicators 296 olympia bobou Abbreviations 321 Works Cited 323 Contributors 361 Index Locorum 363 General Index 373 MATERNAL CONCEPTIONS IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY This page intentionally left blank 10 Contents 10 Alison Keith, Mairéad McAuley, and Alison Sharrockout our anxiety, giving that zone of anguish a name: femininity, nonlanguage, body. But the name we give it before all others, the one we really hold answerable for it, is the mother." 20 The "mother" here stands for both the notion of a coherent self and testimony to its inherent instability, as demonstrated by the inevitable inadequacy or "falling short" of language as communication and signification.Kristeva is redescribing here, in psychoanalytic terms, a philosophical problem with the mother that has troubled modern feminist theory since its origins in the early twentieth century. What does motherhood mean -or rather, what is motherhood's relationship to meaning, particularly as it is defined by "patriarchal discourses" of the self, such as philosophy and literature? At the beginning of The Second Sex, her foundational work of feminist theory, Simone de Beauvoir sketched out the metaphorical meanings of the mother figure in Western culture:The Woman-Mother has a face of shadows: she is the chaos whence all have come and whither all must one day return; she is Nothingness. In the Night are confused together the multiple aspects of the world which daylight reveals: night of spirit confined in the generality and opacity of matter, night of sleep and of nothingness. In the deeps of the sea it is night: woman is the Mare tenebrarum, dreaded by navigators of old; it is night in the entrails of the earth....
This study of the Confessions engages with contemporary philosophers and psychologists antagonistic to religion and demonstrates the enduring value of Augustine's journey for those struggling with theistic incredulity and religious narcissism. Paul Rigby draws on current Augustinian scholarship and the works of Paul Ricœur to cross-examine Augustine's testimony. This analysis reveals the sophistication of Augustine's confessional text, which anticipates the analytical mindset of his critics. Augustine presents a coherent, defensible response to three age-old problems: free will and grace; goodness, innocent suffering, and radical evil; and freedom and predestination. The Theology of Augustine's Confessions moves beyond commentary and allows present-day readers to understand the Confessions as its original readers experienced it, bridging the divide introduced by Kant, Hegel, Freud, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and their descendants.
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