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Edited by Allison Surtees, University of Winnipeg, Canada, Jennifer Dyer, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: September 2020
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9781474447065

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Texts

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Gender identity and expression in ancient cultures are questioned in these 15 essays in light of our new understandings of sex and gender.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Notes on Contributors
pp ix-xi

Dedication
pp xii-xii

Introduction: Queering Classics
pp 1-26

I - Gender Construction
pp 27-28

1 - Gender Diversity in Classical Greek Thought
pp 29-42

2 - Blending Bodies in Classical Greek Medicine
pp 43-53

3 - Birth by Hammer: Pandora and the Construction of Bodies
pp 54-66

4 - Life after Transition: Spontaneous Sex Change and Its Aftermath in Ancient Literature
pp 67-78

II - Gender Fluidity
pp 79-80

5 - Neutrumque et Utrumque Videntur: Reappraising the Gender Role(s) of Hermaphroditus in Ancient Art
pp 81-94

6 - Intersex and Intertext: Ovid’s Hermaphroditus and the Early Universe
pp 95-105

7 - Que(e)r(y)ing Iphis’ Transformation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
pp 106-117

8 - Ruling in Purple … and Wearing Make-up: Gendered Adventures of Emperor Elagabalus as seen by Cassius Dio and Herodian
pp 118-128

III - Transgender Identity
pp 129-130

9 - Allegorical Bodies: (Trans)gendering Virtus in Statius’ Thebaid 10 and Silius Italicus’ Punica 15
pp 131-142

10 - Performing Blurred Gender Lines: Revisiting Omphale and Hercules in Pompeian Dionysian Theatre Gardens
pp 143-156

11 - The Politics of Transgender Representation in Apuleius’ the Golden Ass and Loukios, or the Ass
pp 157-168

12 - Wit, Conventional Wisdom and Wilful Blindness: Intersections between Sex and Gender in Recent Receptions of the Fifth of Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans
pp 169-182

IV - Female Masculinity
pp 183-184

13 - Christianity Re-sexualised: Intertextuality and the Early Christian Novel
pp 185-196

14 - Manly and Monstrous Women: (De-)Constructing Gender in Roman Oratory
pp 197-208

15 - The Great Escape: Reading Artemisia in Herodotus’ Histories and 300: Rise of an Empire
pp 209-221

Selected Bibliography
pp 222-258

Index
pp 259-264

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