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Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World

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Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World

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Cover of: Sex in Antiquity
Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World
2018, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Sex in Antiquity
Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World
2018, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Sex in Antiquity
Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World
2018, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Sex in Antiquity
Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World
2018, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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2014, Taylor & Francis Group
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Table of Contents

Introduction Page 1 Part 1. Ancient Near East Page 13 1. ‘I Have Hired You with My Son’s Mandrakes’: Women’s Reproductive Magic in Ancient Israel / Susan Ackerman Page 15 2. Fertility and Gender in the Ancient Near East / Stephanie L. Budin Page 30 3. Guarding the House: Conflict, Rape, and David’s Concubines / Elna K. Solvang Page 50 4. From Horse Kissing to Beastly Emissions: Paraphilias in the Ancient Near East / Roland Boer Page 67 5. Too Young - Too Old? Sex and Age in Mesopotamian Literature / Gwendolyn Leick Page 80 Part 2. Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Greece Page 97 6. Fantasy and the Homosexual Orgy: Unearthing the Sexual Scripts of Ancient Athens / Alastair J.L. Blanshard Page 99 7. Was Pederasty Problematized? A Diachronic View / Andrew Lear Page 115 8. Before Queerness? Visions of a Homoerotic Heaven in Ancient Greco-Italic Tomb Paintings / Walter Penrose Page 137 9. ‘Sex Ed’ at the Archaic Symposium: Prostitutes, Boys and Paideia / Allison Glazebrook Page 157 10. Is There a History of Prostitution? / Simon Goldhill Page 179 11. Relations of Sex and Gender in Greek Melic Poetry: Helen Object and Subject of Desire / Claude Calame Page 198 12. Melancholy Becomes Electra / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz Page 214 13. Of Love and Bondage in Euripides’ Hippolytus / Monica S. Cyrino Page 231 14. Dog-Love-Dog: Kynogamia and Cynic Sexual Ethics / Dorota Dutsch Page 245 15. Naming Names, Telling Tales: Sexual Secrets and Greek Narrative / Sheila Murnaghan Page 260 16. Ancient Warfare and the Ravaging Martial Rape of Girls and Women: Evidence from Homeric Epic and Greek Drama / Kathy L. Gaca Page 278 17. ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ in Women’s Desire / Edward M. Harris Page 298 18. Fantastic Sex: Fantasies of Sexual Assault in Aristophanes / James Robson Page 315 Part 3. Republican, Imperial and Late Ancient Rome Page 333 19. The Bisexuality of Orpheus / Matthew Fox Page 335 20. Reading Boy-Love and Child-Love in the Greco-Roman World / Amy Richlin Page 352 21. What is Philaenis the name of? The Identity, Function and Authority of an Unnamed Figure / Sandra Boehringer Page 374 22. Curiositas, Horror, and the Monstrous-Feminine in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses / Hunter H. Gardner Page 393 23. Making Manhood Hard: Tiberius and Latin Literary Representations of Erectile Dysfunction / Judith P. Hallett Page 408 24. Toga and Pallium: Status, Sexuality, Identity / Kelly Olson Page 422 25. Revisiting Roman Sexuality: Agency and the Conceptualization of Penetrated Males / Deborah Kamen and Sarah Levin-Richardson Page 449 26. The Language of Gender: Lexical Semantics and the Latin Vocabulary of Unmanly Men / Craig Williams Page 461 27. Remaking Perpetua: A Female Martyr Reconstructed / Barbara Gold Page 482 28. Agathias and Paul the Silentiary: Erotic Epigram and the Sublimation of Same-Sex Desire in the Age of Justinian / Steven D. Smith Page 500 29. Friends without Benefits; or, Academic Love / Daniel Boyarin Page 517 30. Toward a Late-Ancient Physiognomy / Mark Masterson Page 536 Index Page 552

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Library of Congress
HQ1075.S474 2014, HQ1075 .S474 2015, HQ1075 .S474 2014

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OL28800387M
Internet Archive
sexinantiquityex0000unse
ISBN 13
9780415519410
LCCN
2014029289
OCLC/WorldCat
897810464, 880966074

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