Revisiting Rape in Antiquity

Susan Deacy is Professor Emerita of Classics at the University of Roehampton, UK, Visiting Fellow at the University of Leicester, UK, and Honorary Professor at the University of Bristol, UK.José Malheiro Magalhães is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton, UK, and an Associate Researcher at the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.Jean Zacharski Menzies is an author of nonfiction on mythology from around the world for all ages, and a PhD graduate in Classics from the University of Roehampton, UK.

• Lists of Plates, Figures, Maps and TablesList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: ‘Twenty Years Ago’: Revisiting Rape in AntiquitySusan Deacy (University of Roehampton, UK)Part 1: Why are we still Reading Rapes?1. Sympathy for the Victims of Sexual Violence in Greek society and LiteratureEdward M. Harris (Durham, University, UK)2. Why are we Still Reading Ovid’s rapes?Holly Ranger (Institute of Classical Studies University of London, UK)3. Women who Punish Other Women: Rape and Infidelity in Retellings for Children of the Greek myth of Io and HeraRobin Diver (University of Birmingham, UK)Part 2: Victims and survivors4. The Rape of Boys in Ancient AthensJosé Malheiro Magalhães (University of Roehampton, UK)5. The Rape of ChrysippusNuno Simões Rodrigues (University of Lisbon, Portugal)6. Shame on whom? Changing Clerical Views on Raped Women in Late AntiquityUlriika Vihervalli (University of Liverpool, UK)Part 3: Critiquing 'A series of Erotic Pursuits'7. ‘Simulated’ Pursuit Scenes on Red-Figure Pottery: An Iconographic Re-ContextualizationMarco Serino (University of Turin, Italy)8. Changing Fashions in the Visual Depiction of Sexual Pursuit in Classical AthensRobin Osborne (University of Cambridge, UK)9. Fifty Shades of Rape: Erotic Pursuit and Abduction in Athenian Vase-PaintingViktoria Räuchle (University of Vienna, Austria)Part 4: Constructing Rape and Sexual(ised) Violence 10. Revisiting the Vulnerability of Athena: Rape, Sexual Conflict and the ‘Myth Instinct’Susan Deacy (University of Roehampton, UK)11. Sexual Violence in the Female Martyrdoms of the Sixth-Century Byzantine East: Febronia and MahyaElisa Groff (University of Exeter, UK)12. Sororophobia in OvidMelissa Marturano (The City University of New York, USA)Part 5: Coded Rapes: Now and Then13. Why Centaurs do not Rape Anymore? Looking for Sexual violence in Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Culture Inspired by Classical AntiquityAna Mik (University of Warsaw, Poland)14. Sex, Violence and Graphics: Illustrating HelenKaren F. Pierce (University of Cardiff, UK)15. Warfare, Violence, Rape, Revenge: Jane Holland’s Boudicca & coMarguerite Johnson (University of Newcastle, Australia)16. Rape and Rhetoric during the Athenian DemocracyJean Zacharski Menzies (University of Roehampton, UK)NotesBibliographyIndex

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