The Routledge Companion to the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Gender and Sexuality

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This Companion covers a range of receptions of ancient Greek and Roman gender and sexuality. It explores ancient representations of these concepts as we define them today, as well as recent perspectives that have been projected back onto antiquity. Beginning in antiquity, the chapters examine how the ancient Greeks and Romans regarded concepts of what we would today call "gender" and "sexuality" based on the evidence available to us, and chart the varied interpretations and receptions of these concepts across time to the present day. In exploring how different cultures have "received" the classical past, the volume investigates these cultures’ different interpretations of Greek and Roman sexualities, and what these interpretations can reveal about their own attitudes. Through the contributions in this book, the reader gains a deeper understanding of this essential part of human existence, derived from influential sources. From ancient to modern and postmodern perspectives, from cinematic productions to TikTok videos, receptions of ancient gender and sexuality abound. This volume is of interest to students and scholars of ancient history, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, and ancient societies, as well as those working on popular culture and gender studies more broadly. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Legacies of the Ancient Greeks 1 “Never Bury My Bones Apart From Yours”: Iliad Reception in Xena: Warrior Princess 2 Achilles and Patroclus Revisited (Again) 3 #Patrochilles: Find the Phallus 4 Of Late I Dream of Lesbos: Renée Vivien’s Queer Utopias in the Aeolian Mode 5 A ‘Hollywood-Bowl Tiresias’: Antiquity and Trans- Identity in Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge and Myron 6 Panic in the Oikos: Female Bodies, [re]Productive Anxiety and Wasted Landscapes in Greek Myth and Dystopian SF 7 “Je Sentis Tout Mon Corps et Transir et Brûler”: Sublimating Ancient Sexuality in Jean Racine’s Phèdre et Hippolyte 8 On the Reception of Same-Sex Marriage in Classical Greece and Beyond 9 Ancient and Modern Receptions of Eunuchs With a Focus on Alexander’s Bagoas 10 The Sexuality of the Argeads 11 Alexander the Great and Hephaistion in Fiction After Stonewall 12 Patterns of Force: Receptions of Agesilaus II, Disability, and Greek Sexuality 13 A Revised Interpretation of the Ancient Greek Hetaira 14 Those Infamous Females: The (Ancient) Reception of the Sexuality of Hellenistic Queens 15 Dover, Foucault and the Rules of South African Mine Marriages Part II Romanocentric Receptions 16 Two Case Studies on Receptions of Sex and Power: Lucretia and Verginia 17 Seduction Skills of Queen Cleopatra and Definitions of Masculinity in the Roman Literature 18 Women’s Virgil: Reception as Re-imagination 19 The Poet, the Puella, and the Penis: Impotence and Elegiac Failure in Maximianus and Ovid 20 Boudica as a Literary Figure in Cassius Dio 21 The Influence of Roman Laws on Same-Sex Acts on Twenty-First-Century Homophobia in Africa 22 Roman Gender in the Roman de Silence Part III Greek and Roman Afterlives 23 Perfumes for Men, Perfumes for Women: The Uses of Scents and the Prejudice of Corruption in the Graeco-Roman World 24 “Thirteen Days Were Devoted to Serving Her Passion”: Amazon Queen Thalestris as a Sexual Male Fantasy in Roman Historiography and Medieval Epic 25 The Reception of Classical Masculinity in Women’s Historical Novels 26 The Sexuality of the “Tyrant” in Greek and Latin Literature and in The Walking Dead 27 Graeco-Roman Worship of the Beloved: The Ancient and Modern Cults of Antinous 28 Transgender Saints: Perpetua’s Legacy 29 A Prehistory of Intersex, or: The Lives and Afterlives of the “Hermaphrodite” 30 Female Agency in Greek Tragedy and Its Receptions in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries Index