A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities

680 Pages·2013·9.84 MB·english

by  Thomas K. Hubbard

A COMPANION
TO GREEK AND
ROMAN
SEXUALITIES
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A COMPANION
TO GREEK AND
ROMAN
SEXUALITIES
Edited by
Thomas K. Hubbard
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1.Greekliterature—Historyandcriticism2.Latinliterature—Historyandcriticism.
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Contents
Foreword ix
NotesonContributors xi
Abbreviations xvii
NoteonAncientGreekWords,Names,andTitles xxvii
1 FeministTheory 1
MarilynB.Skinner
2 StudiesofAncientMasculinity 17
MarkMasterson
3 DesirabilityandtheBody 31
MarkD.Stansbury-O’Donnell
4 Foucault’sHistoryofSexuality andtheDisciplineofClassics 54
KirkOrmand
5 GreekandRomanMarriage 69
AllisonGlazebrookandKellyOlson
6 Prostitution:ControversiesandNewApproaches 83
ThomasA.J.McGinn
7 AncientPederasty:AnIntroduction 102
AndrewLear
8 PeerHomosexuality 128
ThomasK.Hubbard
9 FemaleHomoeroticism 150
SandraBoehringer
vi Contents
10 FromAscesistoSexualRenunciation 164
ThomasK.HubbardandMariaDoerfler
11 SexualAbuseandSexualRights:Slaves’EroticExperience
atAthensandRome 184
EdwardE.Cohen
12 Sumposion 199
SeanCorner
13 SexualityinGreekandRomanReligion 214
JenniferLarson
14 SexualityinGreekandRomanMilitaryContexts 230
DavidD.Leitao
15 AthleticsandSexuality 244
NickFisher
16 Phusis andSensuality:KnowingtheBodyinGreekEroticCulture 265
GiuliaSissa
17 Bewitched,Bothered,andBewildered:EroticMagic
intheGreco-RomanWorld 282
RadcliffeG.EdmondsIII
18 DreamInterpretation,Physiognomy,BodyDivination 297
ChristopheChandezon,Ve´roniqueDasen,andJe´roˆmeWilgaux
19 SexinAncientGreekandRomanEpic 314
IngridE.Holmberg
20 EroticLyric 335
RichardRawlesandBartoloNatoli
21 SexualityintheExtantGreekandRomanTragedies 352
HannaM.Roisman
22 TheBodyPolitic:SexualityinGreekandRomanComedyandMime 366
MonicaFlorence
23 Greco-RomanSatiricalPoetry 381
RalphM.RosenandCatherineC.Keane
24 GreekandRomanEthnosexuality 398
JosephRoisman
25 PlatonicandRomanInfluenceonStoicandEpicureanSexualEthics 417
JamesJope
Contents vii
26 SexualRhetoric:FromAthenstoRome 431
AllisonGlazebrook
27 Biography 446
CarolineVout
28 Epistolography 463
OwenHodkinson
29 PathsofLove:AgeandGenderDynamicsintheEroticNovel 479
T.WadeRichardson
30 SexualThemesinGreekandLatinGraffiti 493
CraigWilliams
31 SexualityandVisualRepresentation 509
JohnR.Clarke
32 SexualityinJewishWritingsfrom200BCEto200CE 534
MaryR.D’Angelo
33 EarlyChristianSexuality 549
KathyL.Gaca
34 TheEarlyModernEroticImagination 565
AlastairJ.L.Blanshard
35 RomanticAppropriations 583
MichaelMatthewKaylor
36 TheEarlyHomophileMovementinGermany 599
HansPeterObermayer
37 AncientSexualityonScreen 613
MonicaS.Cyrino
IndexofAncientWorksCited 629
GeneralIndex 647