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Among Women : From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World / ed. by Lisa Auanger, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (407 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292798168
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.48/9664/09 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ75.5.A485 2002
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter one Introduction -- Chapter two Imag(in)ing a Women’s World in Bronze Age Greece The Frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera -- Chapter three Aphrodite Garlanded: Erôs and Poetic Creativity in Sappho and Nossis -- Chapter four Subjects, Objects, and Erotic Symmetry in Sappho’s Fragments -- Chapter five Excavating Women’s Homoeroticism in Ancient Greece: The Evidence from Attic Vase Painting -- Chapter six Women in Relief: “Double Consciousness” in Classical Attic Tombstones -- Chapter seven Glimpses through a Window An Approach to Roman Female Homoeroticism through Art Historical and Literary Evidence -- Chapter eight Ovid’s Iphis and Ianthe When Girls Won’t Be Girls -- Chapter nine Lucian ’s “Leaena and Clonarium” Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions?* -- Chapter ten “Friendship and Physical Desire” The Discourse of Female Homoeroticism in Fifth-Century ce Egyp -- Works Cited -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: Women's and men's worlds were largely separate in ancient Mediterranean societies, and, in consequence, many women's deepest personal relationships were with other women. Yet relatively little scholarly or popular attention has focused on women's relationships in antiquity, in contrast to recent interest in the relationships between men in ancient Greece and Rome. The essays in this book seek to close this gap by exploring a wide variety of textual and archaeological evidence for women's homosocial and homoerotic relationships from prehistoric Greece to fifth-century CE Egypt. Drawing on developments in feminist theory, gay and lesbian studies, and queer theory, as well as traditional textual and art historical methods, the contributors to this volume examine representations of women's lives with other women, their friendships, and sexual subjectivity. They present new interpretations of the evidence offered by the literary works of Sappho, Ovid, and Lucian; Bronze Age frescoes and Greek vase painting, funerary reliefs, and other artistic representations; and Egyptian legal documents.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter one Introduction -- Chapter two Imag(in)ing a Women’s World in Bronze Age Greece The Frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera -- Chapter three Aphrodite Garlanded: Erôs and Poetic Creativity in Sappho and Nossis -- Chapter four Subjects, Objects, and Erotic Symmetry in Sappho’s Fragments -- Chapter five Excavating Women’s Homoeroticism in Ancient Greece: The Evidence from Attic Vase Painting -- Chapter six Women in Relief: “Double Consciousness” in Classical Attic Tombstones -- Chapter seven Glimpses through a Window An Approach to Roman Female Homoeroticism through Art Historical and Literary Evidence -- Chapter eight Ovid’s Iphis and Ianthe When Girls Won’t Be Girls -- Chapter nine Lucian ’s “Leaena and Clonarium” Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions?* -- Chapter ten “Friendship and Physical Desire” The Discourse of Female Homoeroticism in Fifth-Century ce Egyp -- Works Cited -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Women's and men's worlds were largely separate in ancient Mediterranean societies, and, in consequence, many women's deepest personal relationships were with other women. Yet relatively little scholarly or popular attention has focused on women's relationships in antiquity, in contrast to recent interest in the relationships between men in ancient Greece and Rome. The essays in this book seek to close this gap by exploring a wide variety of textual and archaeological evidence for women's homosocial and homoerotic relationships from prehistoric Greece to fifth-century CE Egypt. Drawing on developments in feminist theory, gay and lesbian studies, and queer theory, as well as traditional textual and art historical methods, the contributors to this volume examine representations of women's lives with other women, their friendships, and sexual subjectivity. They present new interpretations of the evidence offered by the literary works of Sappho, Ovid, and Lucian; Bronze Age frescoes and Greek vase painting, funerary reliefs, and other artistic representations; and Egyptian legal documents.

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In English.

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