Masterson Mark - Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World

SEX IN ANTIQUITY

Looking at sex and sexuality from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in a variety of media, Sex in Antiquity represents a vibrant picture of the discipline of ancient gender and sexuality studies, showcasing the work of leading international scholars as well as that of emerging talents and new voices.

Sexuality and gender in the ancient world is an area of research that has grown quickly with often sudden shifts in focus and theoretical standpoints. This volume contextualizes these shifts while putting in place new ideas and avenues of exploration that further develop this lively field or set of disciplines. This broad study also includes studies of gender and sexuality in the Ancient Near East which provide not only rich consideration of those areas but also a comparative perspective not often found in such collections. Sex in Antiquity is a major contribution to the field of ancient gender and sexuality studies.

Mark Masterson is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has published articles and book chapters on Statius, Vitruvius, the Historia Monachorum, Eugene ONeill, Emperor Julian, St Augustine and current New Zealand health policy, and the state of masculinity studies in Classics. His monograph, Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood is forthcoming.

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College (NY). Author of Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women (1993) and Greek Tragedy (2008), she has co-edited Vision and Viewing in Ancient Greece, with Sue Blundell and Douglas Cairns (2013); Feminist Theory and the Classics, with Amy Richlin (Routledge, 1993); Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World, with Lisa Auanger (2002); as well as From Abortion to Pederasty Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom, with Fiona McHardy (2014). She is one of the co-editors and translators of Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (Routledge, 1999).

James Robson is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University (UK). His previous publications include Humour, Obscenity and Aristophanes (2006); Aristophanes: An Introduction (shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Leagues Runciman Award, 2009); Ctesias History of Persia: Tales of the Orient (jointly with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones; Routledge, 2010) and Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens (2013).

Rewriting Antiquity provides a platform to examine major themes of the ancient world in a broad, holistic and inclusive fashion. Coverage is broad both in time and space, allowing a full appreciation of the selected topic rather than an exclusive view bound by a relatively short timescale and place. Each volume examines a key theme from the Ancient Near East to Late Antiquity, and often beyond, to break down the boundaries habitually created by focusing on one region or time period.

Volumes within the series highlight the latest research, current developments and innovative approaches, situating this with existing scholarship. Individual case studies and analysis held within sections build to form a comprehensive and comparative overview of the subject enabling readers to view matters in the round and establish interconnections and resonance across a wide spectrum. In this way the volumes allow new directions of study to be defined and provide differing perspectives to stimulate fresh approaches to the theme examined.

Forthcoming:

Childhood in Antiquity

Lesley Beaumont, Matthew Dillon and Nicola Harrington

Disability in Antiquity

Christian Laes

Globalisation in Antiquity

Konstantinos Vlassopoulos

Women in Antiquity

Stephanie Lynn Budin and Jean Turfa

SEX IN ANTIQUITY

Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the
Ancient World

Edited by Mark Masterson, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and
James Robson

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This book is dedicated:

To T. R. Heartt

To Ella and Sophie Gold, granddaughters extraordinaires

To Owain Thomas, cariad and ffrind mawr

CONTENTS

Mark Masterson, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, and James Robson, with assistance from Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

PART I
Ancient Near East

Susan Ackerman

Stephanie Lynn Budin

Elna K. Solvang

Roland Boer

Gwendolyn Leick

PART II
Archaic, classical and Hellenistic Greece

Alastair Blanshard

Andrew Lear

Walter Duvall Penrose Jr

Allison Glazebrook

Simon Goldhill

Claude Calame

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz

Monica S. Cyrino

Dorota Dutsch

Sheila Murnaghan

Kathy L. Gaca

Edward M. Harris

James Robson

PART III
Republican, imperial and late-ancient Rome

Matthew Fox

Amy Richlin

Sandra Boehringer

Hunter H. Gardner

Judith P. Hallett

Kelly Olson

Deborah Kamen and Sarah Levin-Richardson

Craig Williams

Barbara K. Gold

Steven D. Smith

Daniel Boyarin

Mark Masterson

The editors would like to extend their thanks to Matt Gibbons and Amy Davis-Poynter at Routledge for their vision, assistance and patience while this volume was in process. We thank Luc Arnault for his work on the translation of two of the essays from French.

Thanks are also due to Caroline Grunewald and Courtney Kaplar, both students at Hamilton College, New York, for research assistance, and to Hamilton College and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, for financial assistance. Finally, we are grateful to Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones for his help with this book, and particularly for his contribution to the Introduction.