Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Identities, Ethnicities and Gender in Antiquity

Edited by: Jacqueline Fabre-Serris , Alison Keith and Florence Klein

Volume 109 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110719949

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About this book

The question of ‘identity’ arises for any individual or ethnic group when they come into contact with a stranger or another people. Such contact results in the self-conscious identification of ways of life, customs, traditions, and other forms of society as one’s own specific cultural features and the construction of others as characteristic of peoples from more or less distant lands, described as very ‘different’. Since all societies are structured by the division between the sexes in every field of public and private activity, the modern concept of ‘gender’ is a key comparator to be considered when investigating how the concepts of identity and ethnicity are articulated in the evaluation of the norms and values of other cultures. The object of this book is to analyze, at the beginning Western culture, various examples of the ways the Greeks and Romans deployed these three parameters in the definition of their identity, both cultural and gendered, by reference to their neighbours and foreign nations at different times in their history. This study also aims to enrich contemporary debates by showing that we have yet to learn from the ancients’ discussions of social and cultural issues that are still relevant today.

Author / Editor information

J. Fabre-Serris, University of Lille, France; A. Keith, University of Toronto, Canada; F. Klein, University of Lille, France.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Alison Keith and Florence Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Masculinity, Dress and Body
Ionians, Egyptians, Thracians: Ethnicity and Gender in Attic Vase-Painting François Lissarrague Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Dress, Ethnic Identity, and Gender in the Achaemenid Empire: Greek Views on the Persians, and Political Ideology in the Classical Time Florence Gherchanoc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Part II: Gender, Political Leaders and Ethnic Identity
What Artemisia Knew: The Political Intelligence of Artemisia of Halicarnassus Giulia Sissa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Cicero’s Verres, Verres’ Women Alison Keith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Identities and Ethnicities in the Punic Wars: Livy’s Portrait of the Carthaginian Sophonisba Jacqueline Fabre-Serris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Part III: Cleopatra’s Survival and Metamorphosis in Roman Poetry
Gendered Intertextuality: Feminizing the Alexandrian Models in Propertius’ Actian Poetry Florence Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Caesar or Cleopatra? Lucan’s Tragic Queen Andrew Feldherr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Part IV: Love, Oriental Ethnicity and Gender in Roman Literature
The Indiscreet Charm of the Exotic: Amores Peregrini as Explorations of Identity in Roman Poetry Federica Bessone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Latin Literary Lenses on Phoenician Female Speech Judith P. Hallett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Babylonians in Thebes: Some Ovidian Stories of Barbarians and Foreigners Alison Sharrock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Part V: Constructing or Deconstructing Female Ethnicity in Late Antiquity
Thessalian Witches: An Ethnic Construct in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses Therese Fuhrer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Exemplary Gallic Wives in the Erotikos and Mulierum Virtutes of Plutarch: Stereotypes and Comparisons Charles Delattre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Africa, famula Romae: Constructions of Ethnic Identity in Claudian’s Panegyrics Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Index Locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of classical antiquity; historians of sex and gender; students of European cultural history
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 286
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 9
- Coloured Illustrations: 4
Keywords: ethnicity; gender; identity; antiquity

eBook

Published: April 6, 2021
ISBN: 9783110719949

Hardcover

Published: April 6, 2021
ISBN: 9783110719857

Paperback

Published: December 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783111115900