Sex in Antiquity

Mark Masterson is Senior Lecturer of Classics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is author of Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood (2014). He has published articles and book chapters on Statius, Vitruvius, the Historia Monachorum, Eugene O’Neill, Emperor Julian, St. Augustine and current New Zealand health policy, and the state of masculinity studies in Classics. He is currently completing a monograph on same-sex desire between Byzantine men, entitled Between Byzantine Men: Desire, Brotherhood, and Male Culture in the Medieval Empire.Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, USA. Author of Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women (1993) and Greek Tragedy (2008), she has co-edited Vision and Viewing in Ancient Greece, with Sue Blundell and Douglas Cairns (2013), Feminist Theory and the Classics, with Amy Richlin (Routledge, 1993), Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World, with Lisa Auanger (2002), as well as From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom, with Fiona McHardy (2014), which won the Teaching Literature Book Award 2015. She is one of the co-editors and translators of Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (1999).James Robson is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University, UK. His previous publications include Humour, Obscenity and Aristophanes (2006); Aristophanes: An Introduction (shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award, 2009); Ctesias’ History of Persia: Tales of the Orient (with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones; 2010) and Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens (2013).

• Introduction Part 1: Ancient Near East 1. Susan Ackerman ‘I Have Hired You with My Son’s Mandrakes’: Women’s Reproductive Magic in Ancient Israel 2. Roland Boer From Horse Kissing to Beastly Emissions: Paraphilias in the Ancient Near East 3. Stephanie L. Budin Fertility and Gender in the Ancient Near East 4. Gwendolyn Leick Too Young - Too Old? Sex and Age in Mesopotamian Literature 5. Elna K. Solvang Guarding the House: Conflict, Rape, and David’s Concubines Part 2: Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Greece 6. Alastair J.L. Blanshard Fantasy and the Homosexual Orgy: Unearthing the Sexual Scripts of Ancient Athens 7. Claude Calame Relations of Sex and Gender in Greek Melic Poetry: Helen Object and Subject of Desire 8. Monica S. Cyrino Of Love and Bondage in Euripides’ Hippolytus 9. Dorota Dutsch Dog-Love-Dog: Kynogamia and Cynic Sexual Ethics 10. Kathy L. Gaca Ancient Warfare and the Ravaging Martial Rape of Girls and Women: Evidence from Homeric Epic and Greek Drama 11. Allison Glazebrook ‘Sex Ed’ at the Archaic Symposium: Prostitutes, Boys and Paideia 12. Simon Goldhill Is There a History of Prostitution? 13. Edward M. Harris ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ in Women’s Desire 14. Andrew Lear Was Pederasty Problematized? A Diachronic View 15. Sheila Murnaghan Naming Names, Telling Tales: Sexual Secrets and Greek Narrative 16. Walter Penrose Before Queerness? Visions of a Homoerotic Heaven in Ancient Greco-Italic Tomb Paintings 17. Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz Melancholy Becomes Electra 18. James Robson Fantastic Sex: Fantasies of Sexual Assault in Aristophanes Part 3: Republican, Imperial and Late Ancient Rome 19. Sandra Boehringer What is Philaenis the name of? The Identity, Function and Authority of an Unnamed Figure 20. Daniel Boyarin Friends without Benefits; or, Academic Love 21. Matthew Fox The Bisexuality of Orpheus 22. Hunter H.Gardner Curiositas, Horror, and the Monstrous-Feminine in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 23. Barbara Gold The Remaking of Perpetua: A Female Martyr Reconstructed 24. Judith P. Hallett Making Manhood Hard: Tiberius and Latin Literary Representations of Erectile Dysfunction 25. Deborah Kamen and Sarah Levin-Richardson Revisiting Roman Sexuality: Agency and the Conceptualization of Penetrated Males 26. Mark Masterson Toward a Late-Ancient Physiognomy 27. Kelly Olson Toga and Pallium: Status, Sexuality, Identity 28. Amy Richlin Reading Boy-Love and Child-Love in the Greco-Roman World 29. Steven D. Smith Agathias and Paul the Silentiary: Erotic Epigram and the Sublimation of Same-Sex Desire in the Age of Justinian 30. Craig Williams The Language of Gender: Lexical Semantics and the Latin Vocabulary of Unmanly Men Index

"[T]he editors of and contributors to this volume offer insightful and sometimes unexpected conversations that take place between current and past scholarship, and provide opportunities to explore the trajectories that scholarship on sex, sexuality, and gender in antiquity might now take... Overall, [the volume] offers thoughtful reflections on how current scholarship on gender and sexuality in antiquity got to where it is today and provides new avenues of inquiry." - F. Mira Green, University of Washington (USA), in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review "This volume is absolutely superb: from cover to cover, 30 chapters and an introduction, it is a tour de force ... The contributions are informative, insightful, articulate and well researched ... the book is an impressive and important work and a necessary read for scholars of the ancient world and sexuality studies."- Darlene M. Juschka, University of Regina (Canada) in The Classical Review"Recommended"- J. M. Williams, SUNY Geneseo in CHOICE"This is an excellent resource not only for researchers in history, social sciences, and philosophy, but also for teachers of courses in ancient civilization, providing information that could enrich more traditional approaches."- Christian Perring, Metapsychology Online Reviews