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1 online resource (xv, 389 pages) : illustrations |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
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Imag(in)ing a women's world in Bronze Age Greece: the frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera / Paul Rebak -- Aphrodite garlanded: Erôs and poetic creativity in Sappho and Nossis / Marilyn B. Skinner -- Subjects, objects, and erotic symmetry in Sappho's fragments / Ellen Greene -- Excavating women's homoeroticism in ancient Greece: the evidence fro Attic vase painting / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz -- Women in relief: "double consciousness" in classical Attic tombstones / John G. Younger -- Glimpses through a window: an approach to Roman female homoeroticism through art historical and literary evidence / Lisa Auanger -- Ovid's Iphis and Ianthe: when girls won't be girls / Diane T. Pintabone -- Lucian's "Leaena and Clonarium": voyeurism or a challenge to assumptions? / Shelley P. Haley -- "Friendship and physical desire": the discourse of female homoeroticism in fifth-century C.E. Egypt / Terry G. Wilfong |
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"Women's and men's worlds were largely separate in ancient Mediterranean societies, and, in consequence, many women's deepest personal relationships were with other women. Yet relatively little scholarly or popular attention has focused on women's relationships in antiquity, in contrast to recent interest in the relationships between men in ancient Greece and Rome. The essays in this book seek to close this gap by exploring a wide variety of textual and archaeological evidence for women's homosocial and homoerotic relationships from prehistoric Greece to fifth-century CE Egypt. Drawing on developments in feminist theory, gay and lesbian studies, and queer theory, as well as traditional textual and art historical methods, the contributors to this volume examine representations of women's lives with other women, their friendships, and sexual subjectivity. They present new interpretations of the evidence offered by the literary works of Sappho, Ovid, and Lucian; Bronze Age frescoes and Greek vase painting, funerary reliefs, and other artistic representations; and Egyptian legal documents."--Back cover |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-371) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Lesbianism -- History -- To 500.
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Lesbians in art.
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Art, Classical.
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Lesbians in literature.
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Classical literature -- History and criticism
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Civilization, Classical.
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Art, Ancient.
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Lesbian heroines in literature.
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Civilization, Ancient.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Lesbian heroines in literature
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Civilization, Ancient
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Art, Ancient
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Art, Classical
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Civilization, Classical
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Classical literature
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Lesbianism
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Lesbians in art
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Lesbians in literature
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Lesbische Orientierung Motiv
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Lesbische Orientierung
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Literatur
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Griechisch
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Kunst
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Latein
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Vrouwen.
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Interdependentie.
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Lesbische liefde.
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Klassieke oudheid.
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Griechenland Altertum
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Römisches Reich
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Griechisch.
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Latein.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin, editor.
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Auanger, Lisa, 1965- editor.
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| ISBN |
0292798164 |
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9780292798168 |
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