Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367594640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 156 str.

Kate Gilhuly

Opis

Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture addresses the 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 Cor

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Erotics of Place

Chapter 1: Corinth, Courtesans and the Politics of Place

Chapter 2: Medea in Corinth

Chapter 3: Laconic Sex

Chapter 4: Lyric Poetry, Rape and Spartan Song on the Comic Stage

Chapter 5: Lesbians are Not from Lesbos

Chapter 6: Lesbos and the Invention of Heterosexuality in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Kate Gilhuly is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Wellesley College, USA. She is author of The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece (2009) and the co-editor of Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (2014). She began her research on cultural geography while at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.