Looking at sex and sexuality from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in a variety of media,Sex in Antiquity represents a vibrant picture of the discipline of ancient gender and sexuality studies, showcasing the work of leading international scholars as well as that of emerging talents and new voices.
Sexuality and gender in the ancient world is an area of research that has grown quickly with often sudden shifts in focus and theoretical standpoints. This volume contextualises these shifts while putting in place new ideas and avenues of exploration that further develop this lively field or set of disciplines. This broad study also includes studies of gender and sexuality in the Ancient Near East which not only provide rich consideration of those areas but also provide a comparative perspective not often found in such collections. Sex in Antiquity is a major contribution to the field of ancient gender and sexuality studies.
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| Introduction |
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1 "I have hired you with my son's mandrakes": Women's reproductive magic in ancient Israel |
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2 Fertility and gender in the Ancient Near East |
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3 Guarding the house: Conflict, rape, and David's concubines |
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4 From horse kissing to beastly emissions: Paraphilias in the Ancient Near East |
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5 Too young - too old? Sex and age in Mesopotamian literature |
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PART II Archaic, classical and Hellenistic Greece |
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6 Fantasy and the homosexual orgy: Unearthing the sexual scripts of ancient Athens |
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7 Was pederasty problematized? A diachronic view |
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8 Before queerness? Visions of a homoerotic heaven in ancient Greco-Italic tomb paintings |
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9 "Sex ed" at the archaic symposium: Prostitutes, boys and paideia |
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10 Is there a history of prostitution? |
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11 Relations of sex and gender in Greek melic poetry: Helen, object and subject of desire |
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12 Melancholy becomes Electra |
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13 Of love and bondage in Euripides' Hippolytus |
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14 Dog-love-dog: Kynogamia and Cynic sexual ethics |
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15 Naming names, telling tales: Sexual secrets and Greek narrative |
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16 Ancient warfare and the ravaging martial rape of girls and women: Evidence from Homeric epic and Greek drama |
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17 "Yes" and "no" in women's desire |
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18 Fantastic sex: Fantasies of sexual assault in Aristophanes |
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PART III Republican, imperial and late-ancient Rome |
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19 The bisexuality of Orpheus |
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20 Reading boy-love and child-love in the Greco-Roman world |
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21 What is named by the name "Philaenis"? Gender, function, and authority of an antonomastic figure |
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22 Curiositas, horror, and the monstrous-feminine in Apuleius' Metamorphoses |
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23 Making manhood hard: Tiberius and Latin literary representations of erectile dysfunction |
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24 Toga and pallium: Status, sexuality, identity |
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25 Revisiting Roman sexuality: Agency and the conceptualization of penetrated males |
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26 The language of gender: Lexical semantics and the Latin vocabulary of unmanly men |
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27 Remaking Perpetua: A female martyr reconstructed |
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28 Agathias and Paul the Silentiary: Erotic epigram and the sublimation of same-sex desire in the age of Justinian |
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29 Friends without benefits: Or, academic love |
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30 Toward a late-ancient physiognomy |
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Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College. Author of Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women (1993) and Greek Tragedy (2008), she has co-edited Vision and Viewing in Ancient Greece, with Sue Blundell and Douglas Cairns (2013), Feminist Theory and the Classics, with Amy Richlin (Routledge, 1993), Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World, with Lisa Auanger (2002), as well as From Abortion to Pederasty:Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom, with Fiona McHardy (2014). She is one of the co-editors and translators of Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (Routledge, 1999).
James Robson is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University (UK). His previous publications include Humour, Obscenity and Aristophanes (2006); Aristophanes: An Introduction (shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Leagues Runciman Award; 2009); Ctesias History of Persia: Tales of the Orient (jointly with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones; Routledge, 2010) and Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens (2013).
Mark Masterson is Senior Lecturer of Classics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has published articles and book chapters on Statius, Vitruvius, the Historia Monachorum, Eugene ONeill, Emperor Julian, St. Augustine and Current New Zealand health policy, and the state of masculinity studies in Classics. His monograph, Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood is forthcoming.
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