ANCIENT SEX: New Essays (Classical Memories / Modern Identities).

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Ancient Sex: New Essays presents groundbreaking work in a post- Foucauldian mode on sexuality, sexual identities, and gender identities in ancient Greece and Rome. Since the production of Foucaults History of Sexuality, the field'of classics has been caught in a recursive loop of argument regarding the existence�or lack thereof�of �sexuality� (particularly �homosexuality�) as a meaningful cultural concept for ancient Greece and Rome. Much of the argument concerning these issues, however, has failed to engage with the central argument of Foucault�s work, namely, the assertion that sexuality as we understand it is the correlative of a historically specific form of medical and legal discourse that emerged only in the late nineteenth century. -- Rather than reopening old debates, Ancient Sex takes up Foucault�s call for discursive analysis and elucidates some of the ways that ancient Greek and Roman texts and visual arts articulate a culturally specific discourse about sexual matters. Each contributor presupposes that sexual and gendered identities are discursively produced, and teases out some of the ways that the Greeks and Romans spoke and thought about these issues. Comprising essays by emerging and established scholars, this volume emphasizes in particular: sexual discourses about women; the interaction between sexual identities and class status; gender as an unstable discursive category (even in antiquity); and the relationships between ancient and modern sexual categories. -- CONTENTS -- One Hundred and Twenty-Five Years of Homosexuality Kirk Ormand and Ruby Blondell -- Vaseworld: Depiction and Description of Sex at Athens Holt N. Parker -- Lesbians Are Not From Lesbos -- Kate Cilhuly -- Pederasty and the Popular Audience -- Julia Shapiro -- What Is �Creek Sex� For? -- Nancy Worman -- Lusty Ladies in the Roman Imaginary -- Deborah Kamen and Sarah Levin-Richardson -- The Illusion of Sexual Identity in Lucian�s -- Dialogues of the Courtesans 5 -- Sandra Boehringer -- Sculpting Antinous: Creations of the Ideal Companion -- Bryan E. Burns -- Not Fade Away -- David M. Halperin. ISBN 9780814212837