Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens

Klappentext This book explores the relationship between the prostitute, the wife, and the ritual performer in Athenian literature. Zusammenfassung In this book! Gilhuly explores the relationship between the prostitute! the wife! and the ritual performer in Athenian literature. Her original readings of familiar classical texts show how these three female roles provided a framework for assessing both masculine and feminine civic behaviour in classical Athens. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Collapsing order: typologies of women in the speech against Neaira; 3. Why is Diotima a priestess?: the feminine continuum in Plato's Symposium; 4. Bringing the polis home: private performance and the civic gaze in Xenophon's Symposium; 5. Sex and sacrifice in Aristophanes' Lysistrata; 6. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Gilhuly, Kate (Wellesley College Gilhuly, Gilhuly Kate
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107404977
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40497-7
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies