Sexuality and gender in the classical world readings and sources /

This volume provides essays that represent a range of perspectives on women, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, tracing the debates from the late 1960s to the late 1990s.

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Corporate Authors: Wiley InterScience Online service
Group Author: McClure, Laura, 1959
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Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Series: Interpreting ancient history
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470756188
Summary: This volume provides essays that represent a range of perspectives on women, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, tracing the debates from the late 1960s to the late 1990s.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xiii, 318 pages)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-306) and index.
ISBN: 9780470756188
0470756187
9780470755532
0470755539
Index Number: HQ1127
CLC: D586.8
Contents: Classical Greek attitudes to sexual behaviour / K.J. Dover -- Double consciousness in Sappho's lyrics / J.J. Wrinkler -- Bound to bleed: Artemis and Greek women / H. King -- Playing the other: theatre, theatricality, and the feminine in Greek drama / F.I. Zeitlin -- The silent women of Rome / M.I. Finley -- The body female and the body politic: Livy's Lucretia and Verginia / S.R. Joshel -- Mistress and metaphor in Augustan Elegy / M. Wyke -- Pliny's Brassiere / A. Richlin -- The voice of the shuttle is ours / P.K. Joplin.