Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World / / Allison Surtees, Jennifer Dyer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Surtees, Allison,; Dyer, Jennifer,
• MitwirkendeR: Adkins, Evelyn,; Agri, Dalida,; Ash, Rowan Emily,; Begum-Lees, Rebecca,; Deminion, Mary,; Dyer, Jennifer,; Hughes, Lisa,; Kelly, Peter,; McCoskey, Denise Eileen,; Passaro, Kimberly,; Penrose, Walter D.,; Rantala, Jussi,; Shannon-Henderson, K. E.,; Sowers, Brian P.,; Sukava, Tyson,; Surtees, Allison,; Uhlig, Anna,; Åshede, Linnea,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Intersectionality in Classical Antiquity : ICA
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 25 B/W illustrations

Explores how binary gender and behaviours of gender were actively challenged in classical antiquityProvides a focus on gender on its own terms and outside the context of sex and sexualityOffers an interdisciplinary approach, appealing to Classicists, Ancient Historians, and Archaeologists, as well as audiences working outside the ancient world, in Gender Studies, Transgender Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies, Anthropology, and Women’s StudiesCovers a broad time period (6th c. BCE – 3rd c. CE) and addresses both textual evidence and material culture (vases, sculpture, wall painting)Provides history of gender identities and behaviours previously ignored or suppressed by disciplinary practicesGender identity and expression in ancient cultures are questioned in these 15 essays in light of our new understandings of sex and gender. Using contemporary theory and methodologies this book opens up a new history of gender diversity from the ancient world to our own, encouraging us to reconsider those very understandings of sex and gender identity.New analyses of ancient Greek and Roman culture that reveal a history of gender diverse individuals that has not been recognised until recently.Taking an interdisciplinary approach these essays will appeal to classicists, ancient historians, archaeologists as well as those working in gender studies, transgender studies, LGBTQ+ studies, anthropology and women’s studies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Queering Classics -- PART I. Gender Construction -- CHAPTER 1. Gender Diversity in Classical Greek Thought -- CHAPTER 2. Blending Bodies in Classical Greek Medicine -- CHAPTER 3. Birth by Hammer: Pandora and the Construction of Bodies -- CHAPTER 4. Life after Transition: Spontaneous Sex Change and Its Aftermath in Ancient Literature -- PART II. Gender Fluidity -- CHAPTER 5. Neutrumque et Utrumque Videntur: Reappraising the Gender Role(s) of Hermaphroditus in Ancient Art -- CHAPTER 6. Intersex and Intertext: Ovid’s Hermaphroditus and the Early Universe -- CHAPTER 7. Que(e)r(y)ing Iphis’ Transformation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses -- CHAPTER 8. Ruling in Purple ... and Wearing Make-up: Gendered Adventures of Emperor Elagabalus as seen by Cassius Dio and Herodian -- PART III. Transgender Identity -- CHAPTER 9. Allegorical Bodies: (Trans)gendering Virtus in Statius’ Thebaid 10 and Silius Italicus’ Punica 15 -- CHAPTER 10. Performing Blurred Gender Lines: Revisiting Omphale and Hercules in Pompeian Dionysian Theatre Gardens -- CHAPTER 11. The Politics of Transgender Representation in Apuleius’ The Golden Ass and Loukios, or the Ass -- CHAPTER 12. Wit, Conventional Wisdom and Wilful Blindness: Intersections between Sex and Gender in Recent Receptions of the Fifth of Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans -- PART IV. Female Masculinity -- CHAPTER 13. Christianity Re-sexualised: Intertextuality and the Early Christian Novel -- CHAPTER 14. Manly and Monstrous Women: (De-)Constructing Gender in Roman Oratory -- CHAPTER 15. The Great Escape: Reading Artemisia in Herodotus’ Histories and 300: Rise of an Empire -- Selected Bibliography -- Index