| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 400 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Edinburgh readings on the ancient world |
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Edinburgh readings on the ancient world.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Note |
"Transferred to digital print 2008." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Women in classical Athens / Christine Schnurr-Redford -- Ideology and "the status of women" in ancient Greece / Marilyn Katz -- Athenian woman / H.D.F. Kitto -- Sociology of prostitution in antiquity in the context of pagan and Christian writings / Hans Herter -- Classical Greek attitudes to sexual behavior / K.J. Dover -- Social body and sexual body / David Halperin -- Law, society, and homosexuality in classical Athens /?r David Cohen -- Pandora unbound / Lin Foxhall -- Cultural construct of the female body in classical Greek science / Lesley Dean-Jones -- Gender and rhetoric / Amy Richlin -- Representations of male-to-female lovemaking / J.R. Clarke -- Women's life in oriental seclusion? / B. Wagner-Hasel -- Attitudes of the Polis to childbirth / Nancy Demand -- Archaeology and gender ideologies in early archaic Greece / Ian Morris -- Concealing/revealing /?r Barbara Kellum -- Satyrs in the women's quarters / Francois Lissarrague -- Feminist boomerang / Lauren E. Talalay -- Asexuality of Dionysus / Michael Jameson -- "Vested interests" in Plautus' Casina / Barbara Gold -- Hippocratic "airs, waters, places" on cross-dressing eunuchs / Elinor Lieber. |
| Summary |
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. -- Back cover. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
Sex -- Greece -- History.
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Sex -- Rome -- History.
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Women -- Greece -- History.
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Women -- Rome -- History.
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Sex role -- Greece -- History.
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Sex role -- Rome -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Golden, Mark, 1948- author.
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Toohey, Peter, 1951- author.
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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| Added Title |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0748613196 |
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074861320X (pbk.) |
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9780748613205 (pbk.) |
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9780748613199 hardcover |
| Standard No. |
heb40158 hdl |
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