Title Roman sexualities / edited by Judith P. Hallett and Marilyn B. Skinner

Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1997 ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (x, 343 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction : quod multo fit in graecia / Marilyn B. Skinner -- Invading the Roman body : manliness and impenetrability in Roman thought / Jonathan Walters -- The teratogenic grid / Holt N. Parker -- Unspeakable professions : public performance and prostitution in ancient Rome / Catharine Edwards -- Dining deviants in Roman political invective / Anthony Corbeill -- Ego mulier : the construction of male sexuality in Catullus / Marilyn B. Skinner -- The erotics of amicitia : readings in Tibullus, Propertius, and Horace / Ellen Oliensis -- Reading broken skin : violence in Roman elegy / David Fredrick -- Pliny's brassiere / Amy Richlin -- Female desire and the discourse of empire : Tacitus's Messalina / Sandra R. Joshel -- Female homoeroticism and the denial of Roman reality in Latin literature / Judith P. Hallett -- The lover's voice in Heroides 15 : or, why is Sappho a man? / Pamela Gordon -- Tandem venit armor : a Roman woman speaks of love / Alison Keith Summary "This collection of essays seeks to establish Roman constructions of sexuality and gender difference as a distinct area of research, complementing work already done on Greece to give a fuller picture of ancient sexuality. By applying feminist critical tools to forms of public discourse, including literature, history, law, medicine, and political oratory, the essays explore the hierarchy of power reflected so strongly in most Roman sexual relations, where noblemen acted as the penetrators and women, boys, and slaves the penetrated. In many cases, the authors show how these roles could be inverted--in ways that revealed citizens' anxieties during the days of the early Empire, when traditional power structures seemed threatened." "In the essays, Jonathan Walters defines the impenetrable male body as the ideational norm; Holt Parker and Catharine Edwards treat literary and legal models of male sexual deviance; Anthony Corbeill unpacks political charges of immoral behavior at banquets, while Marilyn B. Skinner, Ellen Oliensis, and David Fredrick trace linkages between social status and the gender role of the male speaker in Roman lyric and elegy; Amy Richlin interrogates popular medical belief about the female body; Sandra R. Joshel examines the semiotics of empire underlying the historiographic portrayal of the empress Messalina; Judith P. Hallett and Pamela Gordon critique Roman caricatures of the woman-desiring woman; and Alison Keith discovers subversive allusions to the tragedy of Dido in the elegist Sulpicia's self-depiction as a woman in love. Book jacket."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-332) and index Notes Print version record Subject Sex customs -- Rome -- History Sex in literature. Classical literature. Feminist criticism. Feminist literary criticism. Sexual Behavior -- history Roman World Sex -- history Literature -- history Gender Identity -- history 18.46 ancient Latin literature. Classical literature Feminist criticism Literature Manners and customs Sex customs Sex in literature Sexualverhalten Seksualiteit. Letterkunde. Latijn. Romeinse oudheid. Sexualité -- Dans la littérature. Sexualité -- Rome -- Histoire -- Antiquité. Vie sexuelle -- Rome -- Histoire. Littérature antique -- Thèmes, motifs. Rome -- In literature Rome -- History. Rome -- Social life and customs Rome (Empire) Römisches Reich Rome -- Moeurs et coutumes -- Antiquité. Genre/Form History Classical literature. Form Electronic book Author Hallett, Judith P., 1944- Skinner, Marilyn B. LC no. 97012684 ISBN 9780691219547 0691219540

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