The increased attention accorded to concepts of sex and gender developed by work in gender studies has powerfully transformed research in to the ancient Mediterranean past, opening up a new extremely fruitful field of cultural and social analysis. Inasmuch as many ideas and values responsible for shaping the construction of identities in later western societies originate in antiquity, applying gendered theoretical perspectives to the texts and artifacts surviving from the ancient world antiquity offers particular benefits. Inquiries conducted into the relations among men, between men and women, among women, and on modes of constructing what qualifies as “feminine” and “masculine” have brought a new illumination to the distinctive ways that ancient societies and cultures functioned, an illumination also of major relevance for research on the reception of antiquity in western cultures.
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2012

Claude Calame
La poésie de Sappho aux prises avec le genre: polyphonie, pragmatique et rituel (à propos du fr. 58 b [Abstract][Full text]

Giulia Sissa
Agathon and Agathon. Male Sensuality in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae and Plato’s Symposium [Abstract][Full text]

Holt N. Parker
Aristotle’s Unanswered Questions: Women and Slaves in Politics 1252a-1260b [Abstract][Full text]

Mairéad McAuley
Matermorphoses: Motherhood and the Ovidian Epic Subject [Abstract][Full text]

Tara Welch
Perspectives On and Of Livy’s Tarpeia [Abstract][Full text]

Emily A. Hemelrijk
Fictive Motherhood and Female Authority in Roman Cities [Abstract][Full text]

Charilaos N. Michalopoulos
Tiresias between texts and sex [Abstract][Full text]

Florence Klein
Les bouclettes d’Encolpe (Sat. 109.9): une critique pétronienne du néo-alexandrinisme ovidien ? [Abstract][Full text]

Paul Allen Miller
Hadrian’s Practice of Freedom: Yourcenar, Beauvoir, and Foucault [Abstract][Full text]