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