The Routledge companion to the reception of ancient Greek and Roman gender and sexuality / edited by K. R. Moore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moore, Kenneth Royce, 1972- editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity--Greece.

Gender identity.

Gender identity--Rome.

Sex--Greece.

Sex.

Sex--Rome.

Rome--Civilization.

Rome.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.

Civilization.

Greece.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1 Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Dr. K.R. Moore, PhD (St-A) is currently a senior lecturer in the history of ideas at Teesside University, UK; his publications include "The Iphis Incident: Ovid’s Accidental Discovery of Gender Dysphoria" and Sex and the Second-Best City: Sex and Society in the Laws of Plato (Routledge 2005).

Summary:

"This Companion covers a range of receptions of ancient Greek and Roman gender and sexuality. It explores ancient representations of these concepts as we define them today, as well as recent perspectives that have been projected back onto antiquity. Beginning in antiquity, the chapters examine how the ancient Greeks and Romans regarded concepts of what we would today call "gender" and "sexuality" based on the evidence available to us, and chart the varied interpretations and receptions of these concepts across time to the present day. In exploring how different cultures have 'received' the classical past, the volume investigates these cultures' different interpretations of Greek and Roman sexualities, and what these interpretations can reveal about their own attitudes. Through the contributions in this book, the reader gains a deeper understanding of this essential part of human existence, derived from influential sources. From ancient to modern and postmodern perspectives, from cinematic productions to TikTok videos, receptions of ancient gender and sexuality abound. This volume is of interest to students and scholars of ancient history, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, and ancient societies, as well as those working on popular culture and gender studies more broadly"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"Never bury my bones apart from yours" : Iliad reception in Xena : Warrior Princess / Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld

Achilles and Patroclus revisited (again) / David Delbar

#Patrochilles : find the phallus / Bruce M. King and Lynn Kozak

Of late I dream of Lesbos : Renée Vivien's Queer utopias in the Aeolian mode / J.L. Watson

A "Hollywood-Bowl Tiresias" : antiquity and trans-identity in Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge and Myron / Quentin J. Broughall

Panic in the Oikos : female bodies, [re]productive anxiety and wasted landscapes in Greek myth and dystopian SF / Larissa Tittl

"Je sentis tout mon corps et transir et ḅrûler" : sublimating ancient sexuality in Jean Racine's Phèdre et Hippolyte / Mary Hamil Gilbert

On the reception of same-sex marriage in classical Greece and beyond / K.R. Moore

Ancient and modern receptions of eunuchs with a focus on Alexander's Bagoas / Andrew Michael Chugg

The sexuality of the Argeads / Sabine Müller

Alexander the Great and Hephaiston in fiction after Stonewall / Jeanne Reames

Patterns of force : receptions of Agesilaus II, disability, and Greek sexuality / Alexandra F. Morris

A revised interpretation of the Ancient Greek Hetaira / Stephanie Lynn Budin

Those infamous females : the (ancient) reception of the sexuality of Hellenistic queens / Alex McAuley and Ana Garcia Espinos

Dover, Foucault and the rules of South African mine marriages / Susan L. Haskins

Two case studies on receptions of sex and power : Lucretia and Verginia / Paul Chrystal

Seduction skills of Queen Cleopatra and definitions of masculinity in the Roman literature / Jaakkojuhani Peltonen

Women's Virgil : reception as re-imagination / Charlie Kerrigan

The poet, the Puella, and the penis : impotence and elegiac failure in Maximianus and Ovid / Grace Funsten

Boudica as a literary figure in Cassius Dio / Heiko Kammers

The influence of Roman laws on same-sex acts on twenty-first century homophobia in Africa / Susan L. Haskins

Roman gender in the Roman de silence / Sash (Alexandra) Katharine Kelly

Perfumes for men, perfumes for women : the uses of scents and the prejudice of corruption in the Graeco-Roman world / Giuseppe Squillace

"Thirteen days were devoted to serving her passion" : Amazon Queen Thalestris as a sexual male fantasy in Roman historiography and medieval epic / Jaakkojuhani Peltonen

The reception of classical masculinity in women's historical novels / Leanne Bibby

The sexuality of the "tyrant" in Greek and Latin literature and in The walking dead / Sabine Müller

Graeco-Roman worship of the beloved : the ancient and modern cults of Antinous / Andrew Michael Chugg

Transgender saints : Perpetua's legacy / Barbara Gold

A prehistory of intersex, or; The lives and afterlives of the "hermaphrodite" / Chris Mowat

Female agency in Greek tragedy and its receptions in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries / Lorna Hardwick.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Routledge companion to the reception of ancient Greek and Roman gender and sexuality

ISBN:

9781003024378

1003024378

9781000626186

1000626180

9781000626193

1000626199

OCLC:

1304834127

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