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Roman sexualities

Title
Roman sexualities / edited by Judith P. Hallett and Marilyn B. Skinner.
Publication
Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Hallett, Judith P., 1944-
  • Skinner, Marilyn B.
Description
x, 343 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
"This collection of essays seeks to establish Roman constructions of sexuality and gender difference as a distinct area of research, complementing work already done on Greece to give a fuller picture of ancient sexuality. By applying feminist critical tools to forms of public discourse, including literature, history, law, medicine, and political oratory, the essays explore the hierarchy of power reflected so strongly in most Roman sexual relations, where noblemen acted as the penetrators and women, boys, and slaves the penetrated. In many cases, the authors show how these roles could be inverted--in ways that revealed citizens' anxieties during the days of the early Empire, when traditional power structures seemed threatened." "In the essays, Jonathan Walters defines the impenetrable male body as the ideational norm; Holt Parker and Catharine Edwards treat literary and legal models of male sexual deviance; Anthony Corbeill unpacks political charges of immoral behavior at banquets, while Marilyn B. Skinner, Ellen Oliensis, and David Fredrick trace linkages between social status and the gender role of the male speaker in Roman lyric and elegy; Amy Richlin interrogates popular medical belief about the female body; Sandra R. Joshel examines the semiotics of empire underlying the historiographic portrayal of the empress Messalina; Judith P. Hallett and Pamela Gordon critique Roman caricatures of the woman-desiring woman; and Alison Keith discovers subversive allusions to the tragedy of Dido in the elegist Sulpicia's self-depiction as a woman in love. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Aufsatzsammlung.
  • Classical literature.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-332) and index.
Contents
Introduction : quod multo fit in graecia / Marilyn B. Skinner -- Invading the Roman body : manliness and impenetrability in Roman thought / Jonathan Walters -- The teratogenic grid / Holt N. Parker -- Unspeakable professions : public performance and prostitution in ancient Rome / Catharine Edwards -- Dining deviants in Roman political invective / Anthony Corbeill -- Ego mulier : the construction of male sexuality in Catullus / Marilyn B. Skinner -- The erotics of amicitia : readings in Tibullus, Propertius, and Horace / Ellen Oliensis -- Reading broken skin : violence in Roman elegy / David Fredrick -- Pliny's brassiere / Amy Richlin -- Female desire and the discourse of empire : Tacitus's Messalina / Sandra R. Joshel -- Female homoeroticism and the denial of Roman reality in Latin literature / Judith P. Hallett -- The lover's voice in Heroides 15 : or, why is Sappho a man? / Pamela Gordon -- Tandem venit armor : a Roman woman speaks of love / Alison Keith.
ISBN
  • 0691011796
  • 9780691011790
  • 0691011788
  • 9780691011783
LCCN
97012684
OCLC
  • ocm36640758
  • 36640758
  • SCSB-351765
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library