Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World

Looking At Sex And Sexuality From A Variety Of Historical, Sociological And Theoretical Perspectives, As Represented In A Variety Of Media, Sex In Antiquity Represents A Vibrant Picture Of The Discipline Of Ancient Gender And Sexuality Studies, Showcasing The Work Of Leading International Scholars As Well As That Of Emerging Talents And New Voices. Sexuality And Gender In The Ancient World Is An Area Of Research That Has Grown Quickly With Often Sudden Shifts In Focus And Theoretical Standpoints. This Volume Contextualises These Shifts While Putting In Place New Ideas And Avenues Of Exploration That Further Develop This Lively Field Or Set Of Disciplines. This Broad Study Also Includes Studies Of Gender And Sexuality In The Ancient Near East Which Not Only Provide Rich Consideration Of Those Areas But Also Provide A Comparative Perspective Not Often Found In Such Collections. Sex In Antiquity Is A Major Contribution To The Field Of Ancient Gender And Sexuality Studies. -- Introduction / Mark Masterson, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz And James Robson, With Assistance From Lloyd Llewllyn ; Part I: Ancient Near East. I Have Hired You With My Son's Mandrakes : Women's Reproductive Magic In Ancient Israel / Susan Ackerman ; Fertility And Gender In The Ancient Near East / Stephanie Lynn Budin ; Guarding The House : Conflict, Rape, And David's Concubines / Elna K. Solvang ; From Horse Kissing To Beastly Emissions : Paraphilias In The Ancient Near East / Roland Boer ; Too Young -- Too Old? Sex And Age In Mesopotamian Literature / Gwendolyn Leick -- Part Ii: Archaic, Classical And Hellenistic Greece. Fantasy And The Homosexual Orgy : Unearthing The Sexual Scripts Of Ancient Athens / Alastair Blanshard ; Was Pederasty Problematized? A Diachronic View / Andrew Lear ; Before Queerness? Visions Of A Homoerotic Heaven In Ancient Greco-italic Tomb Paintings / Walter Duvall Penrose Jr ; Sex Ed At The Archaic Symposium : Prostitutes, Boys And Paideia / Allison Glazebrook ; Is There A History Of Prostitution? / Simon Goldhill ; Relations Of Sex And Gender In Greek Melic Poetry : Helen, Object And Subject Of Desire / Claude Calame ; Melancholy Becomes Electra / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz ; Of Love And Bondage In Euripides' Hippolytus / Monica S. Cyrino ; Dog-love-dog : Kynogamia And Cynic Sexual Ethics / Dorota Dutsch ; Naming Names, Telling Tales : Sexual Secrets And Greek Narrative / Sheila Mumaghan ; Ancient Warfare And The Ravaging Martial Rape Of Girls And Women : Evidence From Homeric Epic And Greek Drama / Kathy L. Gaca ; Yes And No In Women's Desire / Edward M. Harris ; Fantastic Sex : Fantasies Of Sexual Assault In Aristophanes / James Robson -- Part Iii: Republican, Imperial And Late-ancient Rome. The Bisexuality Of Orpheus / Matthew Fox ; Reading Boy-love And Child-love In The Greco-roman World Amy Richlin ; What Is Named By The Name Philaenis? Gender, Function, And Authority Of An Antonomastic Figure / Sandra Boehringer ; Curiositas, Horror, And The Monstrous-feminine In Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Hunter H. Gardner ; Making Manhood Hard : Tiberius And Latin Literary Representations Of Erectile Dysfunction / Judith P. Hallett ; Toga And Pallium : Status, Sexuality, Identity / Kelly Olson ; Revisiting Roman Sexuality : Agency And The Conceptualization Of Penetrated Males / Deborah Kamen And Sarah Levin-richardson ; The Language Of Gender : Lexical Semantics And The Latin Vocabulary Of Unmanly Men / Craig Williams ; Remaking Perpetua : A Female Martyr Reconstructed / Barbara K. Gold ; Agathias And Paul The Silentiary : Erotic Epigram And The Sublimation Of Same-sex Desire In The Age Of Justinian / Steven D. Smith ; Friends Without Benefits : Or, Academic Love / Daniel Boyarin ; Toward A Late-ancient Physiognomy / Mark Masterson. Edited By Mark Masterson, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz And James Robson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.