Yvona Trnka-Amrhein
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yvona Trnka-Amrhein plays a role.
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2023 Chapter 18. Plotting Plotina? The reception of an empress in Roman provincial prose (fiction) The Reality of Women in the Universe of the Ancient Novel, López Martínez, María Paz, Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart and Ana Belén Zaera García (eds.), pp. 277–296 | Chapter
This chapter explores the reception of the empress Plotina in three texts from three literary traditions within the Roman Empire: the Acta Hermaisci, the Talmud, and Apuleius’ Metamorphoses. It argues that the Plotina character we see in these texts is based on an idea of the Roman empress’… read more