Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Theorizing Love and Desire in the Ancient Novel
7. Considering Desire in the Greek Romances Employing Lacanian Theory: Some Explorations 11
8. Gender and Ways of Organizing Space
9. Space and Gender in the Ancient Greek Novel 29
10. Gendered Places in Two Later Ancient Novels (Aithiopika, Historia Apollonii) 49
11. The Gardens of ‘Kallimachos and Chrysorrhoë’ 77
12. Male Identity and Gendered Ambiguities in the Greek Novel
13. Performing Paideia: Public and Private Masculinity in Chariton 89
14. Gendered Ambiguities, Hybrid Formations, and the Imaginary of the Body in Achilles Tatius 105
15. How to Be a Man: Towards a Sexual Definition of the Self in Achilles Tatius’ Novel Leucippe and Clitophon 127
16. ‘Taking It Like a Man’: Gender, Identity and the Body in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon 147
17. Female Sexuality and Eroticism in the Greek Novel
18. The Κρíσις Inside: Heliodoros’ Variations on the Bedtrick 161
19. Female Sexuality in Longus and Alciphron 181
20. Sexual Identity and Gender Transformations in Petronius and Apuleius
21. Fortunata and the Virtues of Freedwomen 199
22. Anxiety and Influence: Ovid’s Amores 3.7 and Encolpius’ Impotence in Satyricon 126 ff. 211
23. Petronius’ Giton: Gender and Genre in the Satyrica 223
24. Gender Transformations in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 235
25. Composite Bibliography 249
26. Notes on Contributors 267
27. Index Locorum 271
28. Subject Index 281