Adultery
Ancient Greece
Bibliography
Cambridge University Press
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Catullus
Classical antiquity
Classical Athens
Criticism
Dialectic
Discipline and Punish
Effeminacy
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Eroticism
Essentialism
Ethics
Exclusion
Femininity
Feminism
Feminism (international relations)
Greek Homosexuality (book)
Greek love
Homosexuality
Household
Ideology
Jacques Derrida
Lesbian
Literature
Lysistrata
Madness and Civilization
Mark Poster
Masculinity
Michel Foucault
Morality
Narrative
Neglect
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality
Oppression
Oxford University Press
Parody
Paul Rabinow
Pederasty
Pederasty in ancient Greece
Phenomenon
Philosopher
Philosophy
Poetry
Pornography
Positivism
Postmodernism
Priapus
Problematization
Prostitution
Psychoanalysis
Rhetoric
Routledge
Satire
Seduction
Sex and gender distinction
Sexual desire
Sexual identity
Sexuality in ancient Rome
Social constructionism
Subjectivity
Suggestion
Superiority (short story)
Symposium (Plato)
The Erotic
The History of Sexuality
The Philosopher
Thought
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691016795
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 28 Dec 1997
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this collection of provocative essays, historians and literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault, particularly his History of Sexuality, on the study of classics. Foucault's famous work presents a bold theory of sexuality for both ancient and modern times, and yet until now it has remained under-explored and insufficiently analyzed. By bringing together the historical knowledge, philological skills, and theoretical perspectives of a wide range of scholars, this collection enables the reader to explore Foucault's model of Greek culture and see how well his interpretation accounts for the full range of evidence from Greece and Rome. Not only do the essays bring to light the assumptions, ideas, and practices that constituted the intimate lives of men and women in the ancient Mediterranean world, but they also demonstrate the importance of the History of Sexuality for fields as diverse as Greco-Roman antiquity, women's history, cultural studies, philosophy, and modern sexuality.
The essays include "Situating The History of Sexuality" (the editors), "Taking the Sex Out of Sexuality: Foucault's Failed History" (Joel Black), "Incipit Philosophia" (Alain Vizier), "The Subject in Antiquity after Foucault" (Page duBois), "This Myth Which Is Not One: Construction of Discourse in Plato's Symposium" (Jeffrey S. Carnes), "Foucault's History of Sexuality: A Useful Theory for Women?" (Amy Richlin), "Catullan Consciousness, the 'Care of the Self,' and the Force of the Negative in History" (Paul Allen Miller), "Reversals of Platonic Love in Petronius' Satyricon" (Daniel B. McGlathery), and an essay from Dislocating Masculinity (Lin Foxhall).
David H. J. Larmour is Associate Professor of Classics and Paul Allen Miller is Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, both at Texas Tech University. Charles Platter is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia.
