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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The erotics of place; Notes; 1. Corinth, courtesans and the politics of place: Bewitching arts of the courtesans; Servant to strangers; The gender of Corinth; The gender of work; Not for every man is the voyage to Corinth; The courtesan has legs: the afterlife of Lais; Notes; 2. Medea in Corinth; Notes; 3. Laconic sex; Act like a Spartan, sexually speaking; The Spartan image; Thermopylae; Keeping the barbarian out; Spartan pederasty: impervious or not?; Is the womb a tomb?; Female excess |
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Notes4. Lyric poetry, rape and Spartan song on the comic stage; Spartan men in Lysistrata; Spartan women in Lysistrata; The introduction of Lampito; Diallage; Notes; 5. Lesbians are not from Lesbos; Images of Lesbos: erotics and gender; Courtesans, music, and geography; Metaliterary heteroerotics; Roman Sappho; The courtesan's contribution to lesbian sexuality; Notes; 6. Lesbos and the invention of heterosexuality in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe; Situating Daphnis and Chloe; The novel as topograph; Place and genre; The plot; Sappho; Phatta; Syrinx; Echo; Chloe; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture addresses the following question: how does a place "get a reputation?" The Athenians associated sexual behaviors with particular places and their inhabitants, and this book decodes the meaning of the sexualization of place and traces the repercussions of these projections. Focusing on Corinth, Sparta, and Lesbos, each section starts from the fact that there were comic joke words that made a verb out of a place name to communicate a sexual slur. Corinth was thought of as a hotbed of prostitution; Sparta was perceived as a hyper-masculine culture that made femininity a problem; Lesbos had varying historically determined connotations, but was always associated with uninhibited and adventurous sexuality. The cultural beliefs encoded in these sexualized stereotypes are unpacked. These findings are then applied to close readings, ultimately demonstrating how sensitivity to the erotics of place enables new interpretations of well-known texts. In the process of moving from individual word to culture to text, Erotic Geographies recovers a complex mode of identity construction illuminating the workings of the Athenian imaginary as well as the role of discourse in shaping subjectivity. Gilhuly brings together a deep engagement with the robust scholarly literature on sex and gender in Classics with the growing interest in cultural geography in a way that has never been done before."--Provided by publisher |
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Greek literature -- History and criticism
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Geography in literature.
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Eroticism in literature.
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
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Sparta (Extinct city) -- In literature
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Eroticism in literature
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Geography in literature
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Greek literature
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Literature
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
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Corinth (Greece) -- In literature
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Lesbos (Greece : Municipality) -- In literature
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Greece -- Corinth
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Greece -- Lesbos (Municipality)
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315182667 |
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1315182661 |
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