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Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World

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Sex in Antiquity

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
Cover of: Sex in Antiquity
Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World
2018, 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

Classifications

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

ID Numbers

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

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