Description
Book SynopsisSharrock.
Trade ReviewFrom the perspectives of present interest and future research-areas this thought-provoking collection is extremely valuable. -- Christine Walde Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004 For classicists wanting a new perspective on gender studies... and for those interested in ancient and modern theories of vision, it will be a resource for years to come. -- Elizabeth H. Sutherland American Journal of Philology These nine essays collectively make the case for Rome as a missing link in the historical formulation of the gaze... A thought-provoking collection. -- Andrew Feldherr American Historical Review 2004
Table of ContentsList of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Invisible Rome
Chapter 1. Split Vision: The Politics of the Gaze in Seneca's Troaders
Chapter 2. This Ship of Fools: Epic vision in Lucan's Vulteius Episode
Chapter 3. Some Unseen Monster: Rereading Lucretius on Sex
Chapter 4. Reading Programs in Greco-Roman Art: Reflections on the Spada Reliefs
Chapter 5. Look Who's Laughing at Sex: Men and Women Viewers in the Apodyterium of the Suburban Baths at Pompeii
Chapter 6. Political Movement: Walking and Ideology in Republican Rome
Chapter 7. Being in the Eyes: Shame and Sight in Ancient Rome
Chapter 8. Mapping Penetrability in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome
Chapter 9. Looking at Looking: Can You Resist a Reading?
Bibliography
Index
