TransAntiquity

Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient World
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-87434-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 427 g

Reihe: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

TransAntiquity explores transgender practices, in particular cross-dressing, and their literary and figurative representations in antiquity. It offers a ground-breaking study of cross-dressing, both the social practice and its conceptualization, and its interaction with normative prescriptions on gender and sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean world. Special attention is paid to the reactions of the societies of the time, the impact transgender practices had on individuals’ symbolic and social capital, as well as the reactions of institutionalized power and the juridical systems. The variety of subjects and approaches demonstrates just how complex and widespread "transgender dynamics" were in antiquity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campanile, Domitilla

Carlà-Uhink, Filippo

Facella, Margherita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Domitilla Campanile, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, and Margherita Facella, Preface

Part 1: Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient Social and Political Space

- Filippo Carlà-Uhink, ‘Between the Human and the Divine’: Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Graeco-Roman World

- Andrea Raggi, Cross-Dressing in Rome between Norm and Practice

- Domitilla Campanile, The Patrician, the General and the Emperor in Women’s Clothes. Examples of Cross-Dressing in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome

- Martijn Icks, Cross-Dressers in Control. Transvestism, Power and the Balance between the Sexes in the Literary Discourse of the Roman Empire

Part 2: Ancient Transgender Dynamics and the Sacred Sphere

- Valerio Simini, Cross-Dressing and the Sexual Symbolism of the Divine Sphere in Pharaonic Egypt

- Fiorella La Guardia, Aspects of Transvestism in Greek Myths and Rituals

- Margherita Facella, Beyond Ritual: Cross-Dressing between Greece and the Orient

- Chiara O. Tommasi, Cross-Dressing as Discourse and Symbol in Late Antique Religion and Literature

Part 3: Transgender as Subversive Literary Discourse

- Enrico Medda, "O Saffron Robe, to what Pass have you brought me!" Cross-Dressing and Theatrical Illusion in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae

- Christian Stoffel, Declaiming and (Cross-)Dressing: Remixing Roman Declamation and its Metaphorology

- Bobby Xinyue, Imperatrix and bellatrix: Cicero’s Clodia and Vergil’s Camilla

Part 4: Transgender Myth

- Fabio Guidetti, The Hero’s White Hands. The Early History of the Myth of Achilles on Scyros

- Alexandra Eppinger, Hercules cinaedus? The Effeminate Hero in Chri

Über Autor(innen)

Domitilla Campanile (PhD 1992) is Associate Professor of Roman History at the University of Pisa, Italy.

Filippo Carlà-Uhink is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter, UK. After studying in Turin and Udine, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and as Assistant Professor for Cultural History of Antiquity at the University of Mainz, Germany.

Margherita Facella is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Pisa, Italy. She was Visiting Associate Professor at Northwestern University, USA, and a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Münster, Germany.