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

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Science, , 2002; ©2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (334 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.3093; 305.4/09
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Persona (resp. second.): McClureLaura <1959->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sexuality and gender in the classical world
• ISBN: 1-281-32065-X; 9786611320652; 0-470-70383-0; 0-470-75618-7; 0-470-75553-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910145285303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Interpreting ancient history.