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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• McClure, Laura,

Titel

Sexuality and gender in the classical world : readings and sources

Auflage

1st ed

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, England ; : Blackwell Science,

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

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• Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Books

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World: Readings and Sources; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editor's Introduction; Part I: Greece; 1 Classical Greek Attitudes to Sexual Behaviour; 1. Words and Assumptions; 2. Inhibition; 3. Segregation and Adultery; 4. Commercial Sex; 5. Resistance; 6. Homosexuality; 7. Class and Status; 8. Philosophers and Others; Notes; Source; Aristophanes' Speech from Plato, Symposium 189d7-192a1; 2 Double Consciousness in Sappho's Lyrics; Poem 1: Many-mindedness and Magic; Poem 16: What Men Desire; Poem 31: Sappho Reading the Odyssey
• Gardens of NymphsNotes; References; Sources; Sappho; Sappho 1; Sappho 31; Homer, Iliad 5.114-32; Homer, Odyssey 6.139-85; 3 Bound to Bleed: Artemis and Greek Women; From Parthenos to Gyne ̄; The Peri Partheniōn; Conclusion; Addendum; Notes; References; Sources; Hippocrates; Hippocrates, On Unmarried Girls; Euripides; Euripides, Hippolytus 59-105; 4 Playing The Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama; The Body; Theatrical Space; The Plot; Mimesis; Notes; Sources; Sophocles; Sophocles, Women of Trachis 531-87; Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1046-84; Euripides
• Euripides, Bacchae 912-44Part II: Rome; 5 The Silent Women of Rome; Sources; Funerary Inscriptions; 6 The Body Female and The Body Politic: Livy's Lucretia and Verginia; Pretext: The Conditions of a Reading; Livy and the Conditions of His Narrative; Livy's Stories of Lucretia and Verginia: Rape, Death, and Roman History; Flood: Bodily Desire and Political Catastrophe; Woman as Space: Not a Room of Her Own; Epilogue: The News, History, and the Body of Woman; Notes; References; Source; Livy, On the Founding of Rome 1.57.6-59.6; 7 Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy
• I. Written and Living WomenII. Augustan Girl Friends/Elegiac Women; III. Metaphors; IV. Conclusion; Notes; References; Sources; Propertius; Propertius 1.8a; Propertius 1.8b; Propertius 2.5; Cicero, In Defense of Marcus Caelius 20.47-21.50; 8 Pliny's Brassiere; Pliny and the Brassiere; The Woman Behind the Brassiere; Beyond Lingerie; Notes; References; Source; Pliny the Elder, Natural History 28.70-82; Part III: Classical Tradition; 9 The Voice of the Shuttle is Ours; Prior Violence and Feminist Poetics: The Difference a Tale Makes; Unravelling the Mythic Plot: Boundaries, Exchange, Sacrifice
• Art and Resistance: Listening for the Voice of the ShuttleNotes; Source; Ovid, Metamorphoses 6. 424-623; Bibliography; Index
• This volume provides essays that represent a range of perspectives on women, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, tracing the debates from the late 1960s to the late 1990s.
• English
• Description based on print version record.