Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient WorldNancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Lisa Auanger Women's and men's worlds were largely separate in ancient Mediterranean societies, and, in consequence, many women's deepest personal relationships were with other women. Yet relatively little scholarly or popular attention has focused on women's relationships in antiquity, in contrast to recent interest in the relationships between men in Ancient Greece and Rome. The essays in this book seek to close this gap by exploring a wide variety of textual and archaeological evidence for women's homosocial and homoerotic relationships from prehistoric Greece to fifth-century CE Egypt. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Imagining a Womens World in Bronze Age Greece The Frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri Thera | 34 |
Aphrodite Garlanded Eros and Poetic Creativity in Sappho and Nossis | 60 |
Subjects Objects and Erotic Symmetry in Sapphos Fragments | 82 |
Excavating Womens Homoeroticism in Ancient Greece The Evidence from Attic Vase Painting | 106 |
Women in Relief Double Consciousness in Classical Attic Tombstones | 167 |
Glimpses through a Window An Approach to Roman Female Homoeroticism through Art Historical and Literary Evidence | 211 |
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