Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy

Alison Sharrock is a professor in the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology, and Egyptology at the University of Manchester. Alison Keith is a professor of classics and director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto.

• 1. Introduction Alison Keith, University of Toronto, Mairéad McAuley, University College London, and Alison Sharrock, University of Manchester2. Uncanny Mothers in Roman Literature Mairéad McAuley, University College LondonSection 1: Mothers and Young Children3. From Body to Behaviour: Maternal Transmission in the Ancient Greek World Florence Gherchanoc, Université Paris Diderot, ANHIMA Centre4. Νωδυνία: l’Oubli des souffrances maternelles et le chant théocritéen Florence Klein, Charles de Gaulle University5. "Nimis mater": Mother Plot and Epic Deviation in the Achilleid Federica Bessone, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy6. Augustan Maternal Ideology: The Blended Families of Octavia and Venus Judith P. Hallett, University of MarylandSection 2: Mothers and Their Children’s Marriages7. Motherhood in Roman Epithalamia Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer, Universität Basel, Switzerland8. The Roman Mother-in-Law Alison Sharrock, University of ManchesterSection 3: Mothers and Adult Children9. maximum Thebis (Romae?) scelus/maternus amor est (Oed. 629-30): Amour de la mère et inceste chez Sénèque Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Charles de Gaulle University10. Mighty Mothers: Female Political Theorists in Euripides’ Suppliant Women and Phoenician Women Giulia Sissa, University of California11. Wife, Mother, Philosopher: On the Symbolic Function of Augustine’s Monnica Therese Fuhrer, Ludwig Maximilians UniversitätSection 4: Mothers and the Death of Their Children12. Virgilian Matres: From Maternal Lament to Female Sedition in the Aeneid Alison Keith, University of Toronto13. Octavia: A Roman Mother in Mourning Valerie Hope, The Open University14. Mothers as Dedicators Olympia Bobou, Aarhus University, Denmark

"The chapters are successful in considering the nuances of the conceptualization of mothers in ancient sources, especially in poetry, and taken as a whole the volume achieves its aim of opening up new ways of viewing mothers in antiquity."- Fiona McHardy, University of Roehampton (Early Modern Women)