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Record Nr.

UNINA9910145285303321

Titolo

Sexuality and gender in the classical world : readings and sources / / edited by Laura K. McClure

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Science, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

1-281-32065-X

9786611320652

0-470-70383-0

0-470-75618-7

0-470-75553-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Collana

Interpreting Ancient History

Disciplina

305.3093

305.4/09

Soggetti

Women - History - To 500

Sex role - Greece - History - To 1500

Sex role - Rome - History - To 1500

Sex role in literature

Classical literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: Readings and Sources; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editor's Introduction; Part I: Greece; 1 Classical Greek Attitudes to Sexual Behaviour; 1. Words and Assumptions; 2. Inhibition; 3. Segregation and Adultery; 4. Commercial Sex; 5. Resistance; 6. Homosexuality; 7. Class and Status; 8. Philosophers and Others; Notes; Source; Aristophanes' Speech from Plato, Symposium 189d7-192a1; 2 Double Consciousness in Sappho's Lyrics; Poem 1: Many-mindedness and Magic; Poem 16: What Men Desire; Poem 31: Sappho Reading the Odyssey

Gardens of NymphsNotes; References; Sources; Sappho; Sappho 1; Sappho 31; Homer, Iliad 5.114-32; Homer, Odyssey 6.139-85; 3 Bound to Bleed: Artemis and Greek Women; From Parthenos to Gyne ̄; The Peri



Partheniōn; Conclusion; Addendum; Notes; References; Sources; Hippocrates; Hippocrates, On Unmarried Girls; Euripides; Euripides, Hippolytus 59-105; 4 Playing The Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama; The Body; Theatrical Space; The Plot; Mimesis; Notes; Sources; Sophocles; Sophocles, Women of Trachis 531-87; Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1046-84; Euripides

Euripides, Bacchae 912-44Part II: Rome; 5 The Silent Women of Rome; Sources; Funerary Inscriptions; 6 The Body Female and The Body Politic: Livy's Lucretia and Verginia; Pretext: The Conditions of a Reading; Livy and the Conditions of His Narrative; Livy's Stories of Lucretia and Verginia: Rape, Death, and Roman History; Flood: Bodily Desire and Political Catastrophe; Woman as Space: Not a Room of Her Own; Epilogue: The News, History, and the Body of Woman; Notes; References; Source; Livy, On the Founding of Rome 1.57.6-59.6; 7 Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy

I. Written and Living WomenII. Augustan Girl Friends/Elegiac Women; III. Metaphors; IV. Conclusion; Notes; References; Sources; Propertius; Propertius 1.8a; Propertius 1.8b; Propertius 2.5; Cicero, In Defense of Marcus Caelius 20.47-21.50; 8 Pliny's Brassiere; Pliny and the Brassiere; The Woman Behind the Brassiere; Beyond Lingerie; Notes; References; Source; Pliny the Elder, Natural History 28.70-82; Part III: Classical Tradition; 9 The Voice of the Shuttle is Ours; Prior Violence and Feminist Poetics: The Difference a Tale Makes; Unravelling the Mythic Plot: Boundaries, Exchange, Sacrifice

Art and Resistance: Listening for the Voice of the ShuttleNotes; Source; Ovid, Metamorphoses 6. 424-623; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume provides essays that represent a range of perspectives on women, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, tracing the debates from the late 1960s to the late 1990s.