Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Introduction: Queering Classics 1
6. PART I. Gender Construction
7. CHAPTER 1. Gender Diversity in Classical Greek Thought 29
8. CHAPTER 2. Blending Bodies in Classical Greek Medicine 43
9. CHAPTER 3. Birth by Hammer: Pandora and the Construction of Bodies 54
10. CHAPTER 4. Life after Transition: Spontaneous Sex Change and Its Aftermath in Ancient Literature 67
11. PART II. Gender Fluidity
12. CHAPTER 5. Neutrumque et Utrumque Videntur: Reappraising the Gender Role(s) of Hermaphroditus in Ancient Art 81
13. CHAPTER 6. Intersex and Intertext: Ovid’s Hermaphroditus and the Early Universe 95
14. CHAPTER 7. Que(e)r(y)ing Iphis’ Transformation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 106
15. CHAPTER 8. Ruling in Purple ... and Wearing Make-up: Gendered Adventures of Emperor Elagabalus as seen by Cassius Dio and Herodian 118
16. PART III. Transgender Identity
17. CHAPTER 9. Allegorical Bodies: (Trans)gendering Virtus in Statius’ Thebaid 10 and Silius Italicus’ Punica 15 131
18. CHAPTER 10. Performing Blurred Gender Lines: Revisiting Omphale and Hercules in Pompeian Dionysian Theatre Gardens 143
19. CHAPTER 11. The Politics of Transgender Representation in Apuleius’ The Golden Ass and Loukios, or the Ass 157
20. CHAPTER 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 169
21. PART IV. Female Masculinity
22. CHAPTER 13. Christianity Re-sexualised: Intertextuality and the Early Christian Novel 185
23. CHAPTER 14. Manly and Monstrous Women: (De-)Constructing Gender in Roman Oratory 197
24. CHAPTER 15. The Great Escape: Reading Artemisia in Herodotus’ Histories and 300: Rise of an Empire 209
25. Selected Bibliography 222
26. Index 259