Adultery
Affair
Allusion
Anal sex
Attis
Augustan poetry
BDSM
Castration
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Catullus
Corporal punishment
Criticism
Cunnilingus
Dichotomy
Effeminacy
Epigram
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Eroticism
Eunuch
Femininity
Gender role
Heroides
Homoeroticism
Homosexuality
Homosexuality in ancient Rome
Household
Humiliation
Ideology
Illustration
Infamia
Invective
Juvenal
Latin literature
Latin poetry
Lesbian
Literature
Livy
Masculinity
Messalina
Narrative
Ovid
Pederasty
Penis
Philaenis
Plautus
Pliny the Elder
Poetry
Politician
Principate
Propertius
Prostitution
Prostitution in ancient Rome
Roman Empire
S. (Dorst novel)
Satire
Sexual assault
Sexual intercourse
Sexuality in ancient Rome
Slavery
Social status
Suetonius
Suggestion
Sulpicia (wife of Lentulus Cruscellio)
Superiority (short story)
The Erotic
The History of Sexuality
The Other Hand
Tibullus
Tribadism
Vagina
Virgil
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691011783
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 28 Dec 1997
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Judith P. Hallett is Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland at College Park. Her many works include Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society (Princeton). Marilyn B. Skinner is Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Catullus' "Passer": The Arrangement of the Book of Polymetric Poems.
