Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World

334 Pages·2008·3.485 MB·English

by  McClure, Laura K

SEXUALITY AND GENDER
IN THE CLASSICAL
WORLD
INTERPRETING ANCIENT HISTORY
The books in this series contain a mixture of the most important pre-
viously published articles in ancient history and primary source material
upon which the secondary literature is based. The series encourages
readers to reflect upon a variety of theories and methodologies, to ques-
tiontheargumentsmadebyscholars,andtobegintomastertheprimary
evidence for themselves.
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Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World
Edited by Laura K. McClure
IN PREPARATION
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Edited by Craige Champion
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EADINGS AND
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface x
Acknowledgments xii
Editor’s Introduction 1
PART I Greece 17
1 Classical Greek Attitudes to Sexual Behaviour 19
K. J. Dover
Source:Aristophanes’SpeechfromPlato,Symposium
189d7–192a1 34
2 Double Consciousness in Sappho’s Lyrics 39
J. J. Winkler
Sources:Sappho1and31;Homer,Iliad5.114–32and
Odyssey6.139–85 72
3 Bound to Bleed: Artemis and Greek Women 77
H. King
Sources:Hippocrates,OnUnmarriedGirls;Euripides,
Hippolytus59–105 98
viii CONTENTS
4 Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine
in Greek Drama 103
F. I. Zeitlin
Sources:Sophocles,WomenofTrachis531–87,
1046–84;Euripides,Bacchae912–44 139
PART II Rome 145
5 The Silent Women of Rome 147
M. I. Finley
Sources:FuneraryInscriptions:CE 81.1–2,158.2,
843,1136.3–4;ILS5213,8402,8394;CIL1.1211,
1.1221,1.1837 157
6 The Body Female and the Body Politic: Livy’s
Lucretia and Verginia 163
S. R. Joshel
Source:Livy,OntheFoundingofRome1.57.6–59.6 188
7 Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy 193
M. Wyke
Sources:Propertius1.8a,1.8band2.5;Cicero,In
DefenseofMarcusCaelius20.47–21.50 220
8 Pliny’s Brassiere 225
A. Richlin
Source:PlinytheElder,NaturalHistory28.70–82 253
PART III Classical Tradition 257
9 The Voice of the Shuttle Is Ours 259
Patricia Klindienst
Source:Ovid,Metamorphoses6.424–623 287
Bibliography 293
Index 307