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This volume explores various models of representing temporality in
ancient Greek and Roman literature to elucidate how structures of
time communicate meaning, as well as the way that the cultural
impact of measured time is reflected in ancient texts. This
collection serves as a meditation on the different ways that
cosmological and experiential time are construed, measured, and
manipulated in Greek and Latin literature. It explores both the
kinds of time deemed worthy of measurement as well as time that
escapes notice. Likewise, it interrogates how linear time and its
representation become politicized and leveraged in the service of
emerging and dominant power structures. These essays showcase
various contemporary theoretical approaches to temporality in order
to build bridges and expose chasms between ancient and modern
ideologies of time. Some of the areas explored include the
philosophical and social implications of time that is not measured,
the insights and limitations provided by queer theory for an
investigation of the way sex and gender relate to time, the
relationship of time to power, the extent to which temporal
discourses intersect with spatial constructs, and finally an
exploration of experiences that exceed the boundaries of time.
Making Time for Greek and Roman Literature is of interest to
scholars of time and temporality in the ancient world, as well as
those working on time and temporality in English Literature,
Comparative Literature, History, Sociology, and Gender and
Sexuality. It is also suitable for those working on Greek and Roman
literature and culture more broadly.
Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
addresses the following question: how does a place "get a
reputation?" The Athenians associated sexual behaviors with
particular places and their inhabitants, and this book decodes the
meaning of the sexualization of place and traces the repercussions
of these projections. Focusing on Corinth, Sparta, and Lesbos, each
section starts from the fact that there were comic joke words that
made a verb out of a place name to communicate a sexual slur.
Corinth was thought of as a hotbed of prostitution; Sparta was
perceived as a hyper-masculine culture that made femininity a
problem; Lesbos had varying historically determined connotations,
but was always associated with uninhibited and adventurous
sexuality. The cultural beliefs encoded in these sexualized
stereotypes are unpacked. These findings are then applied to close
readings, ultimately demonstrating how sensitivity to the erotics
of place enables new interpretations of well-known texts. In the
process of moving from individual word to culture to text, Erotic
Geographies recovers a complex mode of identity construction
illuminating the workings of the Athenian imaginary as well as the
role of discourse in shaping subjectivity. Gilhuly brings together
a deep engagement with the robust scholarly literature on sex and
gender in Classics with the growing interest in cultural geography
in a way that has never been done before.
Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
addresses the following question: how does a place "get a
reputation?" The Athenians associated sexual behaviors with
particular places and their inhabitants, and this book decodes the
meaning of the sexualization of place and traces the repercussions
of these projections. Focusing on Corinth, Sparta, and Lesbos, each
section starts from the fact that there were comic joke words that
made a verb out of a place name to communicate a sexual slur.
Corinth was thought of as a hotbed of prostitution; Sparta was
perceived as a hyper-masculine culture that made femininity a
problem; Lesbos had varying historically determined connotations,
but was always associated with uninhibited and adventurous
sexuality. The cultural beliefs encoded in these sexualized
stereotypes are unpacked. These findings are then applied to close
readings, ultimately demonstrating how sensitivity to the erotics
of place enables new interpretations of well-known texts. In the
process of moving from individual word to culture to text, Erotic
Geographies recovers a complex mode of identity construction
illuminating the workings of the Athenian imaginary as well as the
role of discourse in shaping subjectivity. Gilhuly brings together
a deep engagement with the robust scholarly literature on sex and
gender in Classics with the growing interest in cultural geography
in a way that has never been done before.
This book brings together a collection of original essays that
engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new
ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in Greek
literature from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. The authors
draw on an eclectic collection of contemporary approaches to bring
the study of ancient Greek literature into dialogue with the
burgeoning discussion of spatial theory in the humanities. The
essays in this volume treat a variety of textual spaces, from the
intimate to the expansive: the bedroom, ritual space, the law
courts, theatrical space, the poetics of the city, and the
landscape of war. And yet, all of the contributions are united by
an interest in recuperating some of the many ways in which the
ancient Greeks in the archaic and classical periods invested places
with meaning and in how the representation of place links texts to
social practices.
In The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens, Kate
Gilhuly explores the relationship between the prostitute, the wife,
and the ritual performer in Athenian literature. She suggests that
these three roles formed a symbolic continuum that served as an
alternative to a binary conception of gender in classical Athens
and provided a framework for assessing both masculine and feminine
civic behaviour. Grounded in close readings of four texts, 'Against
Neaira', Plato's Symposium, Xenophon's Symposium, and Aristophanes'
Lysistrata, this book draws upon observations from gender studies
and the history of sexuality in ancient Greece to illuminate the
relevance of these representations of women to civic behaviour,
pederasty, philosophy, and politics. In these original readings,
Gilhuly casts a new light on the complexity of the classical
Athenian sex/gender system, demonstrating how various and even
opposing strategies worked together to articulate different facets
of the Athenian subject.
In The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens, Kate
Gilhuly explores the relationship between the prostitute, the wife,
and the ritual performer in Athenian literature. She suggests that
these three roles formed a symbolic continuum that served as an
alternative to a binary conception of gender in classical Athens
and provided a framework for assessing both masculine and feminine
civic behavior. Grounded in close readings of four texts, "Against
Neaira," Plato's Symposium, Xenophon's Symposium, and Aristophanes'
Lysistrata, this book draws upon observations from gender studies
and the history of sexuality in ancient Greece to illuminate the
relevance of these representations of women to civic behavior,
pederasty, philosophy, and politics. In these original readings,
Gilhuly casts a new light on the complexity of the classical
Athenian sex/gender system, demonstrating how various and even
opposing strategies worked together to articulate different facets
of the Athenian subject.
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