Aeneas and Dido Convivium from Vergilius Romanus (Vat. 3867)
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This study seeks to identify positive expressions of women's culture and creativity, as they slip through the manipulation of Ovid's male written text. In another sense, this approach wishes to suggest that alongside its refined wit and word-play, standardly emphasized by previous scholarship, the Ovidian oeuvre has also moments of striking indecision and grappling (namely between the "masculine" and the "feminine"), which is unexpected in the confident and assured authorial persona that Ovidian scholarship has for a long time skillfully celebrated. For further reading, you may want to see the attached bibliography, featuring pieces on the Heroides themselves, as well as works on ancient and modern aesthetics and literary theory (mainly feminist thought and reader-response criticism) which were influential for the shaping of my argument.

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 A number of on-line bibliographic databases proved out very useful during my doctorate research., such as the COPAC page at the University of Manchester, providing access to the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland. Of specific use for classicists is the TOCS-IN database based in Toronto. An invaluable resource for anything to do with women in antiquity is Diotima at the University of Kentucky. FirstSearch, a service of Online Computer Library Center accessible on the Web and by Telnet and authorised to a large number of academic libraries, provides an extensive list of books and articles on modern literary theory and practical literary criticism, mainly through its Modern Languages Association and WorldCat databases. Of particular interest to the theorists should also be the Critical Theory Resource based at the University of California, Irvine and especially its Lecturer Bibliographies where I, for example, found a complete guide on Hélène Cixous' primary work as well as secondary literature.

However, for a more authoritative opinion on bibliographical and classical resources for classicists and all those who are interested in the classical world, see (amongst others):

* the WWW Resources for Classicists in Oxford University Classics Homepage.
* the new Humbul Humanities hub at the Humanities Computing Unit at Oxford University Computing Services.
* the Bibliographic Resources and Tools (reviewing on-line as well as CD-ROM products) in the Resources Guide of the CTI-Textual Studies, which forms part of the Humanities Computing Unit based at OUCS.

But if these Oxford pages are all too slow to turn up, why not try the database on classics and archeology of Sebastian Heath at the University of Michigan with an impressively extensive collection of bibliographies, journals, websites, atlases, museums, field projects and "other loosely related material"?