Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome
Published on 30. July 2019
419 pages
978-1-4744-6854-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French. For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all, focussed on how the roles and spheres of the sexes were divided. While men occupied the public sphere of the community, ranged through the Greek and Roman worlds and participated in politics, courts, theatre and sport, women kept to the home. Sex occupied a separate sphere, in scholarly terms restricted to specialists in ancient medicine. And then the subjects were transformed, first by Sir Kenneth Dover, then by Michel Foucault.This book charts and illustrates the extraordinary evolution of scholarly investigation of a once hidden aspect of the ancient world. In doing so it sheds light on fascinating and curious aspects of ancient lives and thought.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note to the Reader
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- PART I BEFORE FOUCAULT: PREHISTORY
- 1 Women in Classical Athens-Their Social Space: Ideal and Reality
- 2 Ideology and ''the status of Women" in Ancient Greece
- 3 The Athenian Woman
- 4 The Sociology of Prostitution in Antiquity in the Context of Pagan and Christian Writings
- 5 Classical Greek Attitudes to Sexual Behaviour
- PART II FOUCAULT AND AFTER: THE CONSTRUCTION OF ANCIENT GENDER AND SEXUALITY
- 6 The Social Body and the Sexual Body
- 7 Law, Society and Homosexuality in Classical Athens
- 8 Pandora Unbound: A Feminist Critque of Foucault's History of Sexuality
- 9 The Cultural Construct of the Female Body in Classical Greek Science
- 10 Gender and Rhetoric: Producing Manhood in the Schools
- 11 Representations of Male-to-Female Lovemaking
- PART III WHAT IF THERE WAS NO FAULCAULT? SEPARATE SPHERES REVISTED
- 12 Women's Life in Oriental Seclusion? On the History and Use of a Topos
- 13 The Attitudes of the Polis to Childbirth: Putting Women into the Grid
- 14 Archaeology and Gender Ideologies in Early Archaic Greece
- 15 Concealing/Revealing: Gender and the Play of Meaning in the Monuments of Augustan Rome
- I6 Satyrs in the Women's Quarters
- PART IV OUTSIDE THE GAME: GODS, EUNUCHS AND CROSS-DRESSING
- I7 A Feminist Boomerang: The Great Goddess of Greek Prehistory
- I8 The Asexuality of Dionysus
- I9 "Vested Interests" in Plautus!' Casina: Cross-Dressing in Roman Comedy
- 20 The Hippocratic ''Airs, Waters, Places'' on Cross Dressing Eunuchs: "Natural" yet also "Divine
- Intellectual Chronology
- Futher Reading
- Bibliography
- Index
