Brill's companion to episodes of 'heroic' rape/abduction in classical antiquity and their reception [electronic resource] / by Rosanna Lauriola.

"Sexual violence is one of the oldest and most difficult problems of humankind. Many of the "love stories" in Classical Greek and Roman Myth are tales of rape, a fact that is often casually glossed over in both popular and scholarly treatments of these narratives. Through a careful selection of stor...

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