This book explores motherhood in Greek and Roman literature, focusing on images of mothers and their relationships with their children across a variety of genres.

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. Νω¿¿¿¿¿: 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

Alison Sharrock is a professor in the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology, and Egyptology at the University of Manchester.