Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient WorldMark Masterson, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, James Robson 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. |
Contents
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| 1954 | |
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| 1991 | |
Conflict rape and Davids concubines | |
Paraphilias in the Ancient Near East | |
Too young too old? Sex and age in Mesopotamian literature | |
Unearthing the sexual scripts of ancient | |
Kynogamia and Cynic sexual ethics | |
Sexual secrets and Greek narrative | |
Yes and no in womens desire | |
Fantasies of sexual assault in Aristophanes | |
The bisexuality of Orpheus | |
Reading boylove and childlove in the GrecoRoman world | |
What is named by the name Philaenis? Gender function and authority | |
Curiositas horror and the monstrousfeminine in Apuleius Metamorphoses | |
Was pederasty problematized? A diachronic view | |
Before queerness? Visions of a homoerotic heaven in ancient GrecoItalic | |
Prostitutes boys and paideia | |
Is there a history of prostitution? | |
Helen object and subject | |
Melancholy becomes Electra | |
Of love and bondage in Euripides Hippolytus | |
Tiberius and Latin literary representations | |
Status sexuality identity | |
Agency and the conceptualization | |
Lexical semantics and the Latin vocabulary | |
A female martyr reconstructed | |
Erotic epigram and the sublimation | |
Or academic love | |


