Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome
Sandra Boehringer
- 464 páginas
- English
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Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome
Sandra Boehringer
Información del libro
This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic with careful reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the existing visual and written record including literary, philosophical, and scientific documents.
Even today, ancient female homosexuals are still too often seen in terms of a mythical, ethereal Sapphic love, or stereotyped as "Amazons" or courtesans. Boehringer's scholarly book replaces these clichés with rigorous, precise analysis of iconography and texts by Sappho, Plato, Ovid, Juvenal, and many other lyric poets, satirists, and astrological writers, in search of the prevailing norms, constraints, and possibilities for erotic desire. The portrait emerges of an ancient society to which today's sexual categories do not apply—a society "before sexuality"—where female homosexuality looks very different, but is nonetheless very real.
Now available in English for the first time, Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome includes a preface by David Halperin. This book will be of value to students and scholars of ancient sexuality and gender, and to anyone interested in histories and theories of sexuality.
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MYTH AND ARCHAIC LYRIC POETRY
Homoeroticism in the Feminine
Fragments of a lover’s discourse
An institutionalization of homosexuality
Men
By purifying pederasty of sexual desire and interpreting it not as an expression of personal preference but rather as a form of social ritual (thus relegating it to the category of activities set apart from normal daily life and only performed under specially sanctioned circumstances), Patzer in effect maintains heterosexual activity as the ordinary locus of eroticism—even for the Greeks, despite their various sexual peculiarities—and thereby preserves it as the privileged and normative mode of human sexuality.12
Women
Índice
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Translator’s note
- Preface to the English translation (2020): Female Homosexuality, a History in the Present Tense
- David Halperin, Preface to Sandra Boehringer, L’Homosexualité féminine dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007)
- Acknowledgments (2007)
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: toward a constructionist exploration of ancient sexuality
- 1 Myth and Archaic lyric poetry: homoeroticism in the feminine
- 2 Classical and Hellenistic Greece: from silence to humor
- 3 The Roman period: from mythical fiction to satire
- Epilogue: Lucian and the saturation of signs
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of ancient authors and works
- Index of modern authors
- Index rerum