1. Introduction / Alison Keith, University of Toronto, Mairead McAuley, University College London, and Alison Sharrock, University of Manchester -- 2. Uncanny Mothers in Roman Literature / Mairead McAuley, University College London. Section 1: Mothers and Young Children -- 3. From Body to Behaviour: Maternal Transmission in the Ancient Greek World / Florence Gherchanoc, Universite Paris Diderot, ANHIMA Centre -- 4. : l'Oubli des souffrances maternelles et le chant theocriteen / Florence Klein, Charles de Gaulle University -- 5. "Nimis mater": Mother Plot and Epic Deviation in the Achilleid / Federica Bessone, Universita 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, Universitat 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 mere et inceste chez Seneque / 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 Universitat -- 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.