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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458021903321

Titolo

Among women [[electronic resource] ] : from the homosocial to the homoerotic in the ancient world / / edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2002

ISBN

0-292-79816-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RabinowitzNancy Sorkin

AuangerLisa <1965->

Disciplina

305.48/9664/09

Soggetti

Lesbianism - History - To 500

Lesbians in art

Art, Classical

Lesbians in literature

Classical literature - History and criticism

Civilization, Classical

Electronic books.

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 (p. 331-371) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction, by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz""; ""2. Imag(in)ing a Women's World in Bronze Age Greece: The Frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera, by Paul Rehak""; ""3. Aphrodite Garlanded: Erò‚s and Poetic Creativity in Sappho and Nossis, by Marilyn B. Skinner""; ""4. Subjects, Objects, and Erotic Symmetry in Sappho's Fragments, by Ellen Greene""; ""5. Excavating Women's Homoeroticism in Ancient Greece: The Evidence from Attic Vase Painting, by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz ""

""6. Women in Relief: "Double Consciousness" in Classical Attic Tombstones, by John G. Younger""""7. Glimpses through a Window: An Approach to Roman Female Homoeroticism through Art Historical and Literary Evidence, by Lisa Auanger""; ""8. Ovid's Iphis and Ianthe: When Girls Won't Be Girls, by Diane T. Pintabone""; ""9. Lucian's "Leaena and Clonarium": Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions?, by Shelley P. Haley ""; ""10. "Friendship and Physical Desire": The Discourse of



Female Homoeroticism in Fifth-Century CE Egypt, by Terry G. Wilfong""; ""Works Cited""; ""Notes on Contributors""

""Index""