Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World

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Mark Masterson, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, James Robson
Routledge, Feb 5, 2018 - History - 588 pages

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

List of illustrations
1936
Republican imperial and lateancient Rome
1954
ancient Israel
1966
Fertility and gender in the Ancient Near East
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

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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 League’s 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 O’Neill, 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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