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Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Queering Classics -- I: Gender Construction -- 1 Gender Diversity in Classical Greek Thought -- 2 Blending Bodies in Classical Greek Medicine -- 3 Birth by Hammer: Pandora and the Construction of Bodies -- 4 Life after Transit...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh
: Edinburgh University Press
, 2020
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6145048 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Queering Classics -- I: Gender Construction -- 1 Gender Diversity in Classical Greek Thought -- 2 Blending Bodies in Classical Greek Medicine -- 3 Birth by Hammer: Pandora and the Construction of Bodies -- 4 Life after Transition: Spontaneous Sex Change and Its Aftermath in Ancient Literature -- II: Gender Fluidity -- 5 Neutrumque et Utrumque Videntur: Reappraising the Gender Role(s) of Hermaphroditus in Ancient Art -- 6 Intersex and Intertext: Ovid's Hermaphroditus and the Early Universe -- 7 Que(e)r(y)ing Iphis' Transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- 8 Ruling in Purple . . . and Wearing Make-up: Gendered Adventures of Emperor Elagabalus as seen by Cassius Dio and Herodian -- III: Transgender Identity -- 9 Allegorical Bodies: (Trans)gendering Virtus in Statius' Thebaid 10 and Silius Italicus' Punica 15 -- 10 Performing Blurred Gender Lines: Revisiting Omphale and Herculesin Pompeian Dionysian Theatre Gardens -- 11 The Politics of Transgender Representation in Apuleius' The Golden Ass and Loukios, or the Ass -- 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 -- IV: Female Masculinity -- 13 Christianity Re-sexualised: Intertextuality and the Early Christian Novel -- 14 Manly and Monstrous Women: (De-)Constructing Gender in Roman Oratory -- 15 The Great Escape: Reading Artemisiain Herodotus' Histories and 300: Rise of an Empire -- Selected Bibliography -- Index. Gender identity and expression in ancient cultures are questioned in these 15 essays in light of our new understandings of sex and gender |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (281 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781474447065 |
