Sex in antiquity : exploring gender and sexuality in the ancient world

Sex in antiquity : exploring gender and sexuality in the ancient world / edited by Mark Masterson, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and James Robson.

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Other Authors: Masterson, Mark, Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin, Robson, James (James E.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Series:Rewriting antiquity.
Subjects:
Sex role > History > To 1500.
Sex > History > To 1500.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Mark Masterson, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and James Robson, with assistance from Lloyd Llewllyn ; Part I: Ancient Near East. "I have hired you with my son's mandrakes" : women's reproductive magic in ancient Israel / Susan Ackerman ; Fertility and gender in the Ancient Near East / Stephanie Lynn Budin ; Guarding the house : conflict, rape, and David's concubines / Elna K. Solvang ; From horse kissing to beastly emissions : Paraphilias in the Ancient Near East / Roland Boer ; Too young
  • too old? Sex and age in Mesopotamian literature / Gwendolyn Leick
  • Part II: Archaic, classical and Hellenistic Greece. Fantasy and the homosexual orgy : unearthing the sexual scripts of ancient Athens / Alastair Blanshard ; Was pederasty problematized? A diachronic view / Andrew Lear ; Before queerness? Visions of a homoerotic heaven in ancient Greco-Italic tomb paintings / Walter Duvall Penrose Jr ; "Sex ed" at the archaic symposium : prostitutes, boys and paideia / Allison Glazebrook ; Is there a history of prostitution? / Simon Goldhill ; Relations of sex and gender in Greek melic poetry : Helen, object and subject of desire / Claude Calame ; Melancholy becomes Electra / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz ; Of love and bondage in Euripides' Hippolytus / Monica S. Cyrino ; Dog-love-dog : Kynogamia and Cynic sexual ethics / Dorota Dutsch ; Naming names, telling tales : sexual secrets and Greek narrative / Sheila Mumaghan ; Ancient warfare and the ravaging martial rape of girls and women : evidence from Homeric epic and Greek drama / Kathy L. Gaca ; "Yes" and "no" in women's desire / Edward M. Harris ; Fantastic sex : fantasies of sexual assault in Aristophanes / James Robson
  • Part III: Republican, imperial and late-ancient Rome. The bisexuality of Orpheus / Matthew Fox ; Reading boy-love and child-love in the Greco-Roman world / Amy Richlin ; What is named by the name "Philaenis"? Gender, function, and authority of an antonomastic figure / Sandra Boehringer ; Curiositas, horror, and the monstrous-feminine in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Hunter H. Gardner ; Making manhood hard : Tiberius and Latin literary representations of erectile dysfunction / Judith P. Hallett ; Toga and pallium : status, sexuality, identity / Kelly Olson ; Revisiting Roman sexuality : agency and the conceptualization of penetrated males / Deborah Kamen and Sarah Levin-Richardson ; The language of gender : lexical semantics and the Latin vocabulary of unmanly men / Craig Williams ; Remaking Perpetua : a female martyr reconstructed / Barbara K. Gold ; Agathias and Paul the Silentiary : erotic epigram and the sublimation of same-sex desire in the age of Justinian / Steven D. Smith ; Friends without benefits : or, academic love / Daniel Boyarin ; Toward a late-ancient physiognomy / Mark Masterson.

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