Parchments of gender : deciphering the bodies of antiquity / edited by Maria Wyke
1998, First Edition. Oxford, New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #388659
ISBN: 0198150806
Physical description: x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Ithyphallic males behaving badly; or, satyr drama as gendered tragic ending / Edith Hall -- 'Mother of the argument' : Eros and the body in Sappho and Plato's Phaedrus / Helene P. Foley -- Talking recipes in the gynaecological texts of the Hippocratic Corpus / Ann Ellis Hanson -- Controlling daughters' bodies in Sirach / Jon L. Berquist -- Austerity, excess, success, and failure in Hellenistic and early imperial Italy / Emma Dench -- Poisonous women and unnatural history in Roman culture / Sarah Currie -- Discovering the body in Roman oratory / Erik Gunderson -- Emperor's new body : ascension from Rome / Mary Beard and John Henderson -- 'Ordering the house' : on the domestication of Jewish bodies / Cynthia M. Baker -- Playing Roman soldiers : the martyred body, Derek Jarman's Sebastiane, and the representation of male homosexuality / Maria Wyke -- Sowing the seeds of violence : rape, women, and the land / Carol Dougherty. Subjects: To 500. Ancient. Human body Social aspects. Human body Symbolic aspects Mediterranean Region.
Sex role Mediterranean Region History. Human body in literature.
Social history To 500.
Gender identity. Social ecology. Human Body
Symbolism. Gender Identity
Social Environment
Corps humain dans la littérature. Histoire sociale Jusqu'à 500. Identité sexuelle. Écologie sociale.
sex role. human ecology.
15.51 Antiquity. Social ecology. Gender identity.
Human body in literature.
Human body Social aspects. Human body Symbolic aspects.
Manners and customs.
Sex role. Social history.
Sex role Mediterranean Region To 500. Human body Social aspects Mediterranean Region To 500. Human body Religious aspects Mediterranean Region To 500. Geschichte 800 v. Chr.-500. Body, Human, in literature. Body, Human Social aspects Mediterranean Region.
Body, Human Symbolic aspects Mediterranean Region. SOCIETY, GREEK
SOCIETY, ROMAN PERIOD
Human body. History, Ancient.
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