Among women : from the homosocial to the homoerotic in the ancient world / edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and 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,...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin (Editor), Auanger, Lisa, 1965- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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Table of Contents:
  • Imag(in)ing a women's world in Bronze Age Greece: the frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera / Paul Rebak
  • Aphrodite garlanded: Erôs and poetic creativity in Sappho and Nossis / Marilyn B. Skinner
  • Subjects, objects, and erotic symmetry in Sappho's fragments / Ellen Greene
  • Excavating women's homoeroticism in ancient Greece: the evidence fro Attic vase painting / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
  • Women in relief: "double consciousness" in classical Attic tombstones / John G. Younger
  • Glimpses through a window: an approach to Roman female homoeroticism through art historical and literary evidence / Lisa Auanger
  • Ovid's Iphis and Ianthe: when girls won't be girls / Diane T. Pintabone
  • Lucian's "Leaena and Clonarium": voyeurism or a challenge to assumptions? / Shelley P. Haley
  • "Friendship and physical desire": the discourse of female homoeroticism in fifth-century C.E. Egypt / Terry G. Wilfong.