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Searching for the Cinaedus in Ancient Rome
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Edited by:
Tommaso Gazzarri
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2023
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The cryptic figure of the cinaedus recurs in both the literature and daily life of the Roman world. His afterlife – the equally cryptic catamite – appears to be well and alive as late as Victorian England. But who was the cinaedus? Should we think of a real group of individuals, or is the term but a scare name to keep at bay any form of threating otherness? This book, the first coherent collection of essays on the topic, addresses the matter and fleshes out the complexity of a debate that concerns not only Roman cinaedi but the foundations of our theoretical approach to the study of ancient sexuality.
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Tommaso Gazzarri, Yale University Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Classics at Union College (NY). He publishes on Republican theatre, Seneca, Roman Stoicism, and silver Latin literature.
Jesse Weiner, University of CA, Irvine, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Classics at Hamilton College (NY). He publishes broadly on Latin literature, drama, classical reception studies, and sexuality and gender studies.
Contributors are: Giulia Sissa, Tom Sapsford, John R. Clarke, Tommaso Gazzarri, Judith P. Hallett, Donald Lateiner, Jesse Weiner, Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Kirk Ormand, Barbara K. Gold, Mark Masterson.
Jesse Weiner, University of CA, Irvine, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Classics at Hamilton College (NY). He publishes broadly on Latin literature, drama, classical reception studies, and sexuality and gender studies.
Contributors are: Giulia Sissa, Tom Sapsford, John R. Clarke, Tommaso Gazzarri, Judith P. Hallett, Donald Lateiner, Jesse Weiner, Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Kirk Ormand, Barbara K. Gold, Mark Masterson.
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eBook published on:
September 4, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9789004548381
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Main content:
318
eBook ISBN:
9789004548381
Keywords for this book
gender studies; Foucault; Ancient Sexuality; Latin Literature; Gender-Deviance; Homosexuality; Bisexuality; Masculinity
Audience(s) for this book
This book is intended for classicists (graduate and post-graduate), as well as for all scholars with an interest in gender studies
