Female homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sandra Boehringer.
• Authors: Boehringer, Sandra
• Contents: List of figures Note to the reader and translator's note Preface to the English Translation (2020), by Sandra Boehringer Preface to Sandra Boehringer, L’Homosexualité féminine dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007, by David Halperin Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction MYTH AND ARCHAIC LYRIC POETRY: HOMOEROTICISM IN THE FEMININE . Fragments of a Lover’s Discourse An Institutionalization of Homosexuality? Men Women Sung Loves Contemporaneous Fictions The Eros of Melic Poetry Alcman’s Partheneia Sappho’s Poems Anacreon and Playful Eroticism Anacreon’s Young Lesbian Girl A Brief Excursus on a False Cognate: lesbiazein Multiple Erotic Possibilities A Picture of a Love Scene Special Discursive Categories The Mythical Trace: the Goddess and the Young Girl The Myth of Kallisto: A Female Affair Textual and Iconographic Sources A Mythical Nucleus A Singular Variant: The Embrace between Artemis and Kallisto A Comedy by Amphis A Mythical Episode An Erotic Metamorphosis Kallisto Bathing CLASSICAL AND HELLENISTIC GREECE: FROM SILENCE TO HUMOR Plato, Symposium : A Theoretical Category Aristophanes’ Speech: Eros and Sexuality The Status and Specificity of Aristophanes’ Speech Eros in Aristophanes: An Eros Beyond the Sexual The Categorization of Erotic Behaviors in Current Human Nature After the Split but Before the Relocation of Organs After the Split and the Relocation of Organs The Effects of Sexual Union Types of Erotic Behaviors and Types of Human Beings A Single Eros Erotic Relations Between Women The Halves Descended from the All-Female Being Plato and the Category of Women Descended from the All-Female Being Plato, Laws : Prohibition as Recognition Women’s Place in the Magnesian City The Prohibition of Homosexuality The Dangers of Intemperance? The Dangers of Passions? On the Techniques of Persuasion The Legislators’ Obsession with Demography Sex Between Women in the Laws To Prohibit is to State Taking all Scenarios into Account Representations and Silences during the Classical Period What The Images Show and What They Do Not A Brief Overview of Iconic Sexual Taboos Women, Men and Olisboi Women Among Themselves: Some Disputed Interpretations Bathing Scenes Courtesans Among Themselves? Women with Garlands The "Saids" and the "Unsaids" of the Texts The Silence of Comedy The Discourse and Silence of Philosophy Aristotle’s Silence and What He Says About Doves 2.3.3.2.1.1. Observing Animals 2.3.3.2.1.2. Eros and Philia According to Aristotle: The (Excluded) Case of Two Women Texts as Indirect Documents on Representations Play and Humor during the Hellenistic Period Asclepiades the Poet-Character and His Loves Epigram V. 207 and the Poetic Oeuvre of Asclepiades Asclepiades’ Hetairai Elegiac Fiction Portrait of Ego, an Amant Transi The Two Samian Women From the Poet’s Gaze to Collective Representations 2.4.2.1. Neither Monsters Nor Prostitutes 2.4.2.2. Neither Tribads Nor Viragos 2.4.2.3. Norms and Their Limits 2.4.3. Changes in Discourse (From the Third to the First Century BCE) 2.4.3.1. Artemis and Kallisto: A Comic Adaptation by Amphis 2.4.3.2. Meleager’s Garland : A Different Kind of Humor THE ROMAN PERIOD: FROM MYTHICAL FICTION TO SATIRE Poetic Discourse: Ovid and Mythical Transformation Sappho in the Heroides : The Birth of a Myth The Sapphic Paradox: An Overview of Reconstructions of Sappho from the Classical Greek Period Onwards Sappho’s Letter: Poetic Metamorphosis and the Metamorphosis of Love Writing Desire: From Sappho to Ovid Ovid and Sapphic Love Callisto in the Metamorphoses : The Hyper-Characterization of a Myth The Sex of Virgins Fluctuating Sex An Ephemeral Embrace Between Women and the Metamorphoses of Desire Iphis in the Metamorphoses : The Metamorphosis of the Myth From Leukippos to Iphis The Structure of the Narrative The Function of the Various Characters The Role of the Gods Textual Reminiscences and Mythical Echoes The Metamorphosis of a Metamorphosis A Girl Two
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 306.7663; Lesbianism -- Greece -- History; Lesbianism -- Rome -- History; Lesbianism -- Mythology -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000396164; 9781000396140; 9781003158080
• Related ISBNs: 9780367744786; 9780367744762
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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