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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.
Women in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Greek literature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Sexualité dans la littérature --- Littérature grecque --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Women in literature --- Sex in literature --- History and criticism --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Sexualité dans la littérature --- Littérature grecque --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Greek literature - History and criticism
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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.
Space and time --- Landscapes --- Cultural geography --- Space in literature. --- History --- Civilization. --- Cultural geography. --- Social aspects --- Ancient --- General. --- Social aspects. --- To 146 B.C. --- Greece --- Greece. --- Civilization --- Human geography --- Countryside --- Landscape --- Natural scenery --- Scenery --- Scenic landscapes --- Nature --- Space of more than three dimensions --- Space-time --- Space-time continuum --- Space-times --- Spacetime --- Time and space --- Fourth dimension --- Infinite --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Space sciences --- Time --- Beginning --- Hyperspace --- Relativity (Physics)
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