Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores a wide variety of textual and archaeological evidence for women's homosocial and homoerotic relationships from prehistoric Greece to fifth-century CE Egypt.
Trade Review"This book is the most thorough account of female homo-erotic materials from the ancient Mediterranean I have yet seen in English... I can easily see it becoming a standard work on ancient female homo-eroticism." John S. Rundin, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Texas at San Antonio
Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction (Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz)
- 2. Imag(in)ing a Women's World in Bronze Age Greece: The Frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera (Paul Rehak)
- 3. Aphrodite Garlanded: Erôs and Poetic Creativity in Sappho and Nossis (Marilyn B. Skinner)
- 4. Subjects, Objects, and Erotic Symmetry in Sappho's Fragments (Ellen Greene)
- 5. Excavating Female Homoeroticism in Ancient Greece: The Evidence from Attic Vase Painting (Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz)
- 6. Women in Relief: "Double Consciousness" in Classical Attic Tombstones (John G. Younger)
- 7. Glimpses through a Window: An Approach to Roman Female Homoeroticism through Art Historical and Literary Evidence (Lisa Auanger)
- 8. Ovid's Iphis and Ianthe: When Girls Won't Be Girls (Diane T. Pintabone)
- 9. Lucian's "Leaena and Clonarium": Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions? (Shelley P. Haley)
- 10. "Friendship and Physical Desire": The Discourse of Female Homoeroticism in Fifth-Century CE Egypt (Terry G. Wilfong)
- Works Cited
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
