Kate Gilhuly

Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture addresses the question how does a place "get a reputation." The Athenians associated sexual behaviors with particular places and their inhabitants, and this book decodes the meaning of the sexualization of place, and traces the repercussions of these projections. Focusing on Cor

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 231g
• ISBN-13: 9780367594640
• ISBN-10: 0367594641
• Artikelnr.: 69892578

Autorenporträt

Kate Gilhuly is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Wellesley College, USA. She is author of The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece (2009) and the co-editor of Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (2014). She began her research on cultural geography while at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Erotics of Place
Chapter 1: Corinth, Courtesans and the Politics of Place
Chapter 2: Medea in Corinth
Chapter 3: Laconic Sex
Chapter 4: Lyric Poetry, Rape and Spartan Song on the Comic Stage
Chapter 5: Lesbians are Not from Lesbos
Chapter 6: Lesbos and the Invention of Heterosexuality in Longus' Daphnis
and Chloe
Bibliography
Index