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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2011

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Greek Tragedy: A Rape Culture? [Abstract][Full text]

Alison Keith
Lycoris Galli/Volumnia Cytheris: a Greek Courtesan in Rome [Abstract][Full text]

Alison Sharrock
Womanly wailing? The mother of Euryalus and gendered reading [Abstract][Full text]

Judith P. Hallett
Scenarios of Sulpiciae: moral discourses and immoral verses [Abstract][Full text]

Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
Le cycle thébain des Métamorphoses: un exemple de mythographie genrée ? [Abstract][Full text]

Thomas Späth
Narrative Performanz.Vorschlag zu einer neuen Lektüre von Geschlecht in taciteischen Texten [Abstract][Full text]

Amy Richlin
Parallel lives: Domitia Lucilla and Cratia, Fronto and Marcus [Abstract][Full text]

Helen King
Galen and the widow. Towards a history of therapeutic masturbation in ancient gynaecology [Abstract][Full text]

Barbara Gold
Gender Fluidity and Closure in Perpetua’s Prison Diary [Abstract][Full text]