Explores transgender practices, in particular cross-dressing, and their literary and figurative representations in antiquity. It offers a comprehensive study of cross-dressing, both of the social practice and its conceptualization, and of its interaction with normative prescriptions on gender and sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean world.
Explores transgender practices, in particular cross-dressing, and their literary and figurative representations in antiquity. It offers a comprehensive study of cross-dressing, both of the social practice and its conceptualization, and of its interaction with normative prescriptions on gender and sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean world.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Domitilla Campanile (PhD 1992) is Associate Professor of Roman History at the University of Pisa, Italy. Filippo Carlà-Uhink is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter, UK. After studying in Turin and Udine, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and as Assistant Professor for Cultural History of Antiquity at the University of Mainz, Germany. Margherita Facella is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Pisa, Italy. She was Visiting Associate Professor at Northwestern University, USA, and a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Münster, Germany.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface, Part 1: Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient Social and Political Space 1. 'Between the Human and the Divine': Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Graeco-Roman World 2. Cross-Dressing in Rome between Norm and Practice 3. The Patrician, the General and the Emperor in Women's Clothes. Examples of Cross-Dressing in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome 4. Literary Discourse of the Roman Empire Part 2: Ancient Transgender Dynamics and the Sacred Sphere 5. Cross-Dressing and the Sexual Symbolism of the Divine Sphere in Pharaonic Egypt 6. Aspects of Transvestism in Greek Myths and Rituals 7. Beyond Ritual: Cross-Dressing between Greece and the Orient 8. Cross-Dressing as Discourse and Symbol in Late Antique Religion and Literature Part 3: Transgender as Subversive Literary Discourse 9. "O Saffron Robe, to what Pass have you brought me!" Cross-Dressing and Theatrical Illusion in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae 10. Declaiming and (Cross-)Dressing: Remixing Roman Declamation and its Metaphorology 11. Imperatrix and bellatrix: Cicero's Clodia and Vergil's Camilla Part 4: Transgender Myth 12. The Hero's White Hands. The Early History of the Myth of Achilles on Scyros13. Hercules cinaedus? The Effeminate Hero in Christian Polemic
Preface, Part 1: Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient Social and Political Space 1. 'Between the Human and the Divine': Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Graeco-Roman World 2. Cross-Dressing in Rome between Norm and Practice 3. The Patrician, the General and the Emperor in Women's Clothes. Examples of Cross-Dressing in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome 4. Literary Discourse of the Roman Empire Part 2: Ancient Transgender Dynamics and the Sacred Sphere 5. Cross-Dressing and the Sexual Symbolism of the Divine Sphere in Pharaonic Egypt 6. Aspects of Transvestism in Greek Myths and Rituals 7. Beyond Ritual: Cross-Dressing between Greece and the Orient 8. Cross-Dressing as Discourse and Symbol in Late Antique Religion and Literature Part 3: Transgender as Subversive Literary Discourse 9. "O Saffron Robe, to what Pass have you brought me!" Cross-Dressing and Theatrical Illusion in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae 10. Declaiming and (Cross-)Dressing: Remixing Roman Declamation and its Metaphorology 11. Imperatrix and bellatrix: Cicero's Clodia and Vergil's Camilla Part 4: Transgender Myth 12. The Hero's White Hands. The Early History of the Myth of Achilles on Scyros13. Hercules cinaedus? The Effeminate Hero in Christian Polemic
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