Chapter six Women in Relief: “Double Consciousness” in Classical Attic Tombstones

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Chapter one Introduction 1
7. Chapter two Imag(in)ing a Women’s World in Bronze Age Greece The Frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera 34
8. Chapter three Aphrodite Garlanded: Erôs and Poetic Creativity in Sappho and Nossis 60
9. Chapter four Subjects, Objects, and Erotic Symmetry in Sappho’s Fragments 82
10. Chapter five Excavating Women’s Homoeroticism in Ancient Greece: The Evidence from Attic Vase Painting 106
11. Chapter six Women in Relief: “Double Consciousness” in Classical Attic Tombstones 167
12. Chapter seven Glimpses through a Window An Approach to Roman Female Homoeroticism through Art Historical and Literary Evidence 211
13. Chapter eight Ovid’s Iphis and Ianthe When Girls Won’t Be Girls 256
14. Chapter nine Lucian ’s “Leaena and Clonarium” Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions?* 286
15. Chapter ten “Friendship and Physical Desire” The Discourse of Female Homoeroticism in Fifth-Century ce Egyp 304
16. Works Cited 331
17. Notes on Contributors 373
18. Index 375