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The feminine matrix of sex and gender in classical Athens
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ISBN: 9780521899987 0521899982 9780511552052 9781107404977 9780511463587 0511463588 0511464371 9780511464379 9780511465116 0511465114 051155205X 9780511462795 0511462794 1107202523 9781107202528 1281982539 9781281982537 9786611982539 6611982531 0511462042 9780511462047 1107404975 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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In The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens, Kate Gilhuly explores the relationship between the prostitute, the wife, and the ritual performer in Athenian literature. She suggests that these three roles formed a symbolic continuum that served as an alternative to a binary conception of gender in classical Athens and provided a framework for assessing both masculine and feminine civic behaviour. Grounded in close readings of four texts, 'Against Neaira', Plato's Symposium, Xenophon's Symposium, and Aristophanes' Lysistrata, this book draws upon observations from gender studies and the history of sexuality in ancient Greece to illuminate the relevance of these representations of women to civic behaviour, pederasty, philosophy, and politics. In these original readings, Gilhuly casts a new light on the complexity of the classical Athenian sex/gender system, demonstrating how various and even opposing strategies worked together to articulate different facets of the Athenian subject.


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Space, place, and landscape in ancient Greek literature and culture
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ISBN: 9781107042124 1107042127 9781107618534 1107618533 9781107323766 1316004244 1316013243 1316008746 1316002004 1107323762 1316006506 113999039X 1316011003 1139985779 1322176566 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York Cambridge University Press

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This book brings together a collection of original essays that engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in Greek literature from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. The authors draw on an eclectic collection of contemporary approaches to bring the study of ancient Greek literature into dialogue with the burgeoning discussion of spatial theory in the humanities. The essays in this volume treat a variety of textual spaces, from the intimate to the expansive: the bedroom, ritual space, the law courts, theatrical space, the poetics of the city, and the landscape of war. And yet, all of the contributions are united by an interest in recuperating some of the many ways in which the ancient Greeks in the archaic and classical periods invested places with meaning and in how the representation of place links texts to social practices.

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