Introduction : seeking the mother in early Imperial Roman literature
Maternal impressions : reading motherhood in Virgil's aeneid and georgics
Matermorphoses : motherhood and the Ovidian epic subject
The textual mother : Seneca's consolatio and helviam matrem
The politics of maternal representation in Seneca's medea and phaedra
Where the unborn lie : the uncanny mothers of Seneca's troades (or, ways of reading a mother in Senecan tragedy
Metaphors and mother tongues in Thebes: Statius's thebaid
Scit cetera mater : motherhood and poetic filiation in Statian epic.