Description
Book SynopsisThe cryptic figure of the cinaedus recurs in both the literature and daily life of the Roman world. His afterlife – the equally cryptic catamite – appears to be well and alive as late as Victorian England. But who was the cinaedus? Should we think of a real group of individuals, or is the term but a scare name to keep at bay any form of threating otherness? This book, the first coherent collection of essays on the topic, addresses the matter and fleshes out the complexity of a debate that concerns not only Roman cinaedi but the foundations of our theoretical approach to the study of ancient sexuality.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity Tommaso Gazzarri () and Jesse Weiner () 1 κιναίδων βίος: Lifestyle, and Sensuality in Ancient Greek Thought Giulia Sissa () 2 Cleomachus: a Study in ‘Cinaedic’ Associations Thomas Sapsford () 3 Representing the Cinaedus in Roman Visual Culture: Seeing, Speaking, Touching John R. Clarke () 4 Cinaedus Galbinatus: Cultural Perception of the Color ‘Green’ and Its Gender Association with Pathici in Rome Tommaso Gazzarri () 5 Connotation and ‘Com-motion’: Putting the Kinesis into the Roman Cinaedus Judith P. Hallett () and Donald Lateiner () 6 The Kinaidos Comes to Rome: Plautus’ Cinaedi Jesse Weiner () 7 The ‘Chorus Cinaedorum’ in Apuleius’ Golden Ass Benjamin Eldon Stevens () 8 Did (Imaginary) Cinaedi Have Sex with Women? Kirk Ormand () 9 Can a Woman Be a Cinaedus? Interrogating Catullus 10 and Roman Social Norms Barbara K. Gold () 10 Kinaidos: the Afterlife of a Term in the Byzantine Empire Mark Masterson () Index
