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This collection of essays seeks to establish Roman constructions of sexuality and gender difference as a distinct area of research, complementing work already done on Greece to give a fuller picture of ancient sexuality. By applying feminist critical tools to forms of public discourse, including literature, history, law, medicine, and political oratory, the essays explore the hierarchy of power reflected so strongly in most Roman sexual relations, where noblemen acted as the penetrators and women, boys, and slaves the penetrated. In many cases, the authors show how these roles could be inverted--in ways that revealed citizens' anxieties during the days of the early Empire, when traditional power structures seemed threatened. In the essays, Jonathan Walters defines the impenetrable male body as the ideational norm; Holt Parker and Catharine Edwards treat literary and legal models of male sexual deviance; Anthony Corbeill unpacks political charges of immoral behavior at banquets, while Marilyn B. Skinner, Ellen Oliensis, and David Fredrick trace linkages between social status and the gender role of the male speaker in Roman lyric and elegy; Amy Richlin interrogates popular medical belief about the female body; Sandra R. Joshel examines the semiotics of empire underlying the historiographic portrayal of the empress Messalina; Judith P. Hallett and Pamela Gordon critique Roman caricatures of the woman-desiring woman; and Alison Keith discovers subversive allusions to the tragedy of Dido in the elegist Sulpicia's self-depiction as a woman in love.

Sex customs --- Sex in literature. --- Classical literature. --- Feminist criticism. --- History. --- Rome --- In literature. --- Social life and customs. --- Classical literature --- Feminist criticism --- Sex in literature --- Customs, Sex --- Human beings --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Manners and customs --- Moral conditions --- Sex --- Criticism --- Literature, Classical --- Literature --- Literature, Ancient --- Greek literature --- Latin literature --- History --- Bakhtin, M. --- Bal, M. --- Boatwright, M. T. --- Brown, P. --- Callimachus. --- Cantarella, E. --- Cohen, D. --- Colin, J. --- Dean-Jones, L. --- Dickison, S. --- Dover, K. J. --- Edwards, C. --- Foucault, M. --- Fredrick, D. --- Galen. --- Gleason, M. --- Golden, M. --- Hallett, J. P. --- Halperin, D. M. --- Jane Eyre. --- Kennedy, D. F. --- Konstan, D. --- Levick, B. --- MacMullen, R. --- Newton, E. --- Oliensis, E. --- Ortner, S. B. --- Parker, H. --- Quinn, K. --- Richlin, A. --- Sedgwick, E. --- Sulpicia. --- Trachtenberg, J. --- Veyne, P. --- adultery. --- anthropology. --- dancing. --- fellatio. --- honor. --- infidelity. --- luxury. --- masculinity. --- motherhood. --- nature. --- passivity. --- power: imperial. --- psychoanalysis. --- Sexualitet --- Sexualitet i litteraturen --- Sex customs. --- Manners and customs. --- Rome in literature. --- Ceremonies --- Customs, Social --- Folkways --- Social customs --- Social life and customs --- Traditions --- Usages --- Civilization --- Ethnology --- Etiquette --- Rites and ceremonies --- historia --- Rome (Empire) --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Italy

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Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome features the extant writings of major female authors from the Greco-Roman world, brought together for the first time in a single volume, in both their original languages and translated into English with accompanying commentaries. The most cost-effective and comprehensive way to study the women writers of Greece and Rome, this book provides original texts, accessible text-commentaries, and detailed English translations of the works of ancient female poets and authors such as Sappho and Sulpicia. It takes a student-focused approach, discussing texts alongside new and original English translations and highlighting the rich, diverse scholarship on ancient women writers to specialists and non-specialists alike. The perspectives of women in the ancient world are still relevant and of interest today, as issues of gender and racial (in)equality remain ever-present in modern society. Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome provides a valuable teaching tool for students of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies, as well as those interested in ancient literature, history, and gender studies who do not have proficiency in Greek or Latin.

Greek poetry --- Latin poetry --- Women authors --- History and criticsm. --- Women authors. --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Latin literature --- Greek literature --- Femmes et littérature.