The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations by Robert L. Mack, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer

The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations

Robert L. Mack, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer

452 pages • first pub 1846 (editions)

fiction classics horror dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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From Latin love poetry's dominating and enslaving beloveds, to modern popular culture's infamous Cleopatras and Messalinas, representations of the Roman mistress (or the mistress of Romans) have brought into question both ancient and modern gender...

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