Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome / / Mark Golden, Peter Toohey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Golden, Mark,; Toohey, Peter,
• MitwirkendeR: Clarke, J. R,; Cohen, David,; Dean-Jones, Lesley,; Demand, Nancy,; Dover, K. J.,; Foxhall, Lin,; Gold, Barbara,; Halperin, David,; Herter, Hans,; Jameson, Michael,; Katz, Marilyn,; Kellum, Barbara,; Kitto, H. D. F.,; Lieber, Elinor,; Lissarrague, Frantcois,; Morris, Ian,; Richlin, Amy,; Schnurr-Redford, Christine,; Talalay, Lauren E.,; Wagner-Hasel, B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World : ERAW
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the Reader -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction -- PART I BEFORE FOUCAULT: PREHISTORY -- 1 Women in Classical Athens-Their Social Space: Ideal and Reality -- 2 Ideology and "the Status of Women" in Ancient Greece -- 3 The Athenian Woman -- 4 The Sociology of Prostitution in Antiquity in the Context of Pagan and Christian Writings -- 5 Classical Greek Attitudes to Sexual Behaviour -- PART II FOUCAULT AND AFTER: THE CONSTRUCTION OF ANCIENT GENDER AND SEXUALITY -- Section II.1 Representation: Pro-Foucault -- 6 The Social Body and the Sexual Body -- Section II. 2 Representation: Anti-Foucault -- 7 Law, Society and Homosexuality in Classical Athens -- 8 Pandora Unbound: A Feminist Critique of Foucault's History of Sexuality -- Section II. 3 Gender, Sex and the Body: Engendering the Body -- 9 The Cultural Construct of the Female Body in Classical Greek Science -- 10 Gender and Rhetoric: Producing Manhood in the Schools -- 11 Representations of Male-to-Female Lovemaking -- PART III WHAT IF THERE WERE NO FOUCAULT? SEPARATE SPHERES REVISITED -- 12 Women's Life in Oriental Seclusion? On the History and Use of a Topos -- 13 The Attitudes of the Polis to Childbirth: Putting Women into the Grid -- 14 Archaeology and Gender Ideologies in Early Archaic Greece -- 15 Concealing/Revealing: Gender and the Play of Meaning in the Monuments of Augustan Rome -- 16 Satyrs in the Women's Quarters -- PART IV OUTSIDE THE GAME: GODS, EUNUCHS AND CROSSDRESSING -- 17 A Feminist Boomerang: The Great Goddess of Greek Prehistory -- 18 The Asexuality of Dionysus -- 19 "Vested Interests" in Plautus' Casina: Cross-Dressing in Roman Comedy -- 20 The Hippocratic ''Airs, Waters, Places" on Cross-Dressing Eunuchs: "Natural" yet also "Divine" -- Intellectual Chronology -- Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index