Identities, ethnicities and gender in antiquity / edited by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Alison Keith and Florence Klein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline, editor.

Keith, Alison, editor.

Klein, Florence, 1977- editor.

Series:

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 109

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VII, 286 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The question of 'identity' arises for any individual or ethnic group when they come into contact with a stranger or another people. Such contact results in the self-conscious identification of ways of life, customs, traditions, and other forms of society as one's own specific cultural features and the construction of others as characteristic of peoples from more or less distant lands, described as very 'different'. Since all societies are structured by the division between the sexes in every field of public and private activity, the modern concept of 'gender' is a key comparator to be considered when investigating how the concepts of identity and ethnicity are articulated in the evaluation of the norms and values of other cultures. The object of this book is to analyze, at the beginning Western culture, various examples of the ways the Greeks and Romans deployed these three parameters in the definition of their identity, both cultural and gendered, by reference to their neighbours and foreign nations at different times in their history. This study also aims to enrich contemporary debates by showing that we have yet to learn from the ancients' discussions of social and cultural issues that are still relevant today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Introduction

Part I: Masculinity, Dress and Body

Ionians, Egyptians, Thracians: Ethnicity and Gender in Attic Vase-Painting

Dress, Ethnic Identity, and Gender in the Achaemenid Empire: Greek Views on the Persians, and Political Ideology in the Classical Time

Part II: Gender, Political Leaders and Ethnic Identity

What Artemisia Knew: The Political Intelligence of Artemisia of Halicarnassus

Cicero's Verres, Verres' Women

Identities and Ethnicities in the Punic Wars: Livy's Portrait of the Carthaginian Sophonisba

Part III: Cleopatra's Survival and Metamorphosis in Roman Poetry

Gendered Intertextuality: Feminizing the Alexandrian Models in Propertius' Actian Poetry

Caesar or Cleopatra? Lucan's Tragic Queen

Part IV: Love, Oriental Ethnicity and Gender in Roman Literature

The Indiscreet Charm of the Exotic: Amores Peregrini as Explorations of Identity in Roman Poetry

Latin Literary Lenses on Phoenician Female Speech

Babylonians in Thebes: Some Ovidian Stories of Barbarians and Foreigners

Part V: Constructing or Deconstructing Female Ethnicity in Late Antiquity

Thessalian Witches: An Ethnic Construct in Apuleius' Metamorphoses

Exemplary Gallic Wives in the Erotikos and Mulierum Virtutes of Plutarch: Stereotypes and Comparisons

Africa, famula Romae: Constructions of Ethnic Identity in Claudian's Panegyrics

List of Contributors

General Index

Index Locorum

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

3-11-071994-0