
Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome
Sandra Boehringer(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 7. September 2021
Book
Hardback
380 pages
978-0-367-74478-6 (ISBN)
Description
This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic with careful reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the existing visual and written record including literary, philosophical, and scientific documents.
Even today, ancient female homosexuals are still too often seen in terms of a mythical, ethereal Sapphic love, or stereotyped as "Amazons" or courtesans. Boehringer's scholarly book replaces these cliches with rigorous, precise analysis of iconography and texts by Sappho, Plato, Ovid, Juvenal, and many other lyric poets, satirists, and astrological writers, in search of the prevailing norms, constraints, and possibilities for erotic desire. The portrait emerges of an ancient society to which today's sexual categories do not apply-a society "before sexuality"-where female homosexuality looks very different, but is nonetheless very real.
Now available in English for the first time, Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome includes a preface by David Halperin. This book will be of value to students and scholars of ancient sexuality and gender, and to anyone interested in histories and theories of sexuality.
Even today, ancient female homosexuals are still too often seen in terms of a mythical, ethereal Sapphic love, or stereotyped as "Amazons" or courtesans. Boehringer's scholarly book replaces these cliches with rigorous, precise analysis of iconography and texts by Sappho, Plato, Ovid, Juvenal, and many other lyric poets, satirists, and astrological writers, in search of the prevailing norms, constraints, and possibilities for erotic desire. The portrait emerges of an ancient society to which today's sexual categories do not apply-a society "before sexuality"-where female homosexuality looks very different, but is nonetheless very real.
Now available in English for the first time, Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome includes a preface by David Halperin. This book will be of value to students and scholars of ancient sexuality and gender, and to anyone interested in histories and theories of sexuality.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
2 s/w Tabellen, 7 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 7 s/w Abbildungen
2 Tables, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-74478-6 (9780367744786)
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Person
Sandra Boehringer is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Strasbourg, France. She is the author of numerous articles on issues of gender and sexuality in the ancient world and the French translator of John Winkler and Maud Gleason. She has also co-edited several collective volumes, including Foucault, la sexualite, l'Antiquite, soon to be available in English from Routledge.
Content
List of figures; Note to the reader and translator's note; Preface to the English Translation (2020), by Sandra Boehringer; Preface to Sandra Boehringer, L'Homosexualite feminine dans l'Antiquite grecque et romaine, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007, by David Halperin; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; I. MYTH AND ARCHAIC LYRIC POETRY: HOMOEROTICISM IN THE FEMININE; II. CLASSICAL AND HELLENISTIC GREECE: FROM SILENCE TO HUMOR; III. THE ROMAN PERIOD: FROM MYTHICAL FICTION TO SATIRE; Epilogue: Lucian or the Saturation of Signs; Conclusion; Bibliography (2007); Index of Ancient Authors and Works; Index of Contemporary Authors; Index nominum et rerum