Author(s): Mark Masterson, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, James Robson
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 588
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Part I Ancient Near East
1 “I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes”: Women’s reproductive magic in ancient Israel
2 Fertility and gender in the Ancient Near East
3 Guarding the house: Conflict, rape, and David’s concubines
4 From horse kissing to beastly emissions: Paraphilias in the Ancient Near East
5 Too young – too old? Sex and age in Mesopotamian literature
Part II Archaic, classical and Hellenistic Greece
6 Fantasy and the homosexual orgy: Unearthing the sexual scripts of ancient Athens
7 Was pederasty problematized? A diachronic view
8 Before queerness? Visions of a homoerotic heaven in ancient Greco-Italic tomb paintings
9 “Sex ed” at the archaic symposium: Prostitutes, boys and paideia
10 Is there a history of prostitution?
11 Relations of sex and gender in Greek melic poetry: Helen, object and subject of desire
12 Melancholy becomes Electra
13 Of love and bondage in Euripides’ Hippolytus
14 Dog-love-dog: Kynogamia and Cynic sexual ethics
15 Naming names, telling tales: Sexual secrets and Greek narrative
16 Ancient warfare and the ravaging martial rape of girls and women: Evidence from Homeric epic and Greek drama
17 “Yes” and “no” in women’s desire
18 Fantastic sex: Fantasies of sexual assault in Aristophanes
Part III Republican, imperial and late-ancient Rome
19 The bisexuality of Orpheus
20 Reading boy-love and child-love in the Greco-Roman world
21 What is named by the name “Philaenis”? Gender, function, and authority of an antonomastic figure
22 Curiositas, horror, and the monstrous-feminine in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
23 Making manhood hard: Tiberius and Latin literary representations of erectile dysfunction
24 Toga and pallium: Status, sexuality, identity
25 Revisiting Roman sexuality: Agency and the conceptualization of penetrated males
26 The language of gender: Lexical semantics and the Latin vocabulary of unmanly men
27 Remaking Perpetua: A female martyr reconstructed
28 Agathias and Paul the Silentiary: Erotic epigram and the sublimation of same-sex desire in the age of Justinian
29 Friends without benefits: Or, academic love
30 Toward a late-ancient physiognomy
Index
