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  • Rehearsals of Manhood

    Athenian Drama as Social Practice

    by John J. Winkler ...
    A bold reconception of ancient Greek drama by one of the most brilliant and original classical scholars of his generationWhen John Winkler died in 1990, he left an unpublished manuscript containing a highly original interpretation of the development and meaning of ancient Greek drama. Rehearsals of Manhood makes this groundbreaking work available for the first time, presenting an entirely novel ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory

    Edited by Ella Haselswerdt, Sara H. Lindheim, Kirk Ormand ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks of Classics and Theory
    New directions in queer theory continue to trouble the boundaries of both queerness and the classical, leading to an explosion of new work in the vast—and increasingly uncharted—intersection between these disciplines, which this interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore.This handbook convenes an international group of experts who work on the classical world and queer theory. The discipline of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Exchange and the Maiden

    Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy

    by Kirk Ormand ...
    Marriage is a central concern in five of the seven extant plays of the Greek tragedian Sophocles. In this pathfinding study, Kirk Ormand delves into the ways in which these plays represent and problematize marriage, thus offering insights into how Athenians thought about the institution of marriage.Ormand takes a two-fold approach. He first explores the legal and economic underpinnings of Athenian ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece

    by Kirk Ormand ...
    This book examines the extant fragments of the archaic Greek poem known in antiquity as Hesiod's Catalogue of Women. Kirk Ormand shows that the poem should be read intertextually with other hexameter poetry from the eighth to sixth century BCE, especially Homer, Hesiod, and the Cyclic epics. Through literary interaction with these poems, the Catalogue reflects political and social tensions in the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Ancient Sex

    New Essays

    by Kirk Ormand ...
    Series series Classical Memories/Modern Identities
    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 Foucault’s 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 ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • A Companion to Sophocles

    Edited by Kirk Ormand ...
    Series Book 171 - Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles.First collection of its kind to provide introductory essays to the fragments of his lost plays and to the remaining fragments of one satyr-play, the Ichneutae, in addition to each of his extant tragediesFeatures new essays on ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

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  • A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities

    Edited by Thomas K. Hubbard ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities presents a comprehensive collection of original essays relating to aspects of gender and sexuality in the classical world.Views the various practices and discursive contexts of sexuality systematically and holisticallyDiscusses Greece and Rome in each chapter, with sensitivity to the continuities and differences between the two classical ... Read more

    $176.00 USD

  • Dangerous Gifts

    Gender and Exchange in Ancient Greece

    by Deborah Lyons ...
    Deianeira sends her husband Herakles a poisoned robe. Eriphyle trades the life of her husband Amphiaraos for a golden necklace. Atreus’s wife Aerope gives away the token of his sovereignty, a lamb with a golden fleece, to his brother Thyestes, who has seduced her. Gifts and exchanges always involve a certain risk in any culture, but in the ancient Greek imagination, women and gifts appear to be a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • In the Orbit of Love

    Affection in Ancient Greece and Rome

    by David Konstan ...
    This book is about love in the classical world - not erotic passion but the kind of love that binds together intimate members of a family and very close friends, but which may also be extended to include a wider range of individuals for whom we care deeply. The book begins with a discussion of friendship, focusing particularly on the Greek notion that in friendship the identities of two friends ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Greek Poetry: Elegiac and Lyric: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Ian Rutherford ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition of the West

    by Beerte C. Verstraete, Vernon L. Provencal ...
    New and surprising insights into homoeroticism of times pastIn ancient times, the Greek god Eros personified both heterosexual and homosexual attractions. Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in Classical Tradition of the West explores the homosexual side of the vanished civilizations of Greece and Rome, and the resulting influence on the Classical tradition of the West. Respected ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Among Women

    From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World

    Edited by Nancy 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 ... Read more

    $35.99 USD