Searching for the Cinaedus in Ancient Rome

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54837-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 475, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 695 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

The cryptic figure of the cinaedus recurs in both the literature and daily life of the Roman world. His afterlife – the equally cryptic catamite – appears to be well and alive as late as Victorian England. But who was the cinaedus? Should we think of a real group of individuals, or is the term but a scare name to keep at bay any form of threating otherness? This book, the first coherent collection of essays on the topic, addresses the matter and fleshes out the complexity of a debate that concerns not only Roman cinaedi but the foundations of our theoretical approach to the study of ancient sexuality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gazzarri, Tommaso

Weiner, Jesse

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Introduction: Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity

Tommaso Gazzarri () and Jesse Weiner ()

1 ???a?d?? ß???: Lifestyle, and Sensuality in Ancient Greek Thought

Giulia Sissa ()

2 Cleomachus: a Study in ‘Cinaedic’ Associations

Thomas Sapsford ()

3 Representing the Cinaedus in Roman Visual Culture: Seeing, Speaking, Touching

John R. Clarke ()

4 Cinaedus Galbinatus: Cultural Perception of the Color ‘Green’ and Its Gender Association with Pathici in Rome

Tommaso Gazzarri ()

5 Connotation and ‘Com-motion’: Putting the Kinesis into the Roman Cinaedus

Judith P. Hallett () and Donald Lateiner ()

6 The Kinaidos Comes to Rome: Plautus’ Cinaedi

Jesse Weiner ()

7 The ‘Chorus Cinaedorum’ in Apuleius’ Golden Ass

Benjamin Eldon Stevens ()

8 Did (Imaginary) Cinaedi Have Sex with Women?

Kirk Ormand ()

9 Can a Woman Be a Cinaedus? Interrogating Catullus 10 and Roman Social Norms

Barbara K. Gold ()

10 Kinaidos: the Afterlife of a Term in the Byzantine Empire

Mark Masterson ()

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tommaso Gazzarri, Yale University Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Classics at Union College (NY). He publishes on Republican theatre, Seneca, Roman Stoicism, and silver Latin literature.

Jesse Weiner, University of CA, Irvine, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Classics at Hamilton College (NY). He publishes broadly on Latin literature, drama, classical reception studies, and sexuality and gender studies.

Contributors are: Giulia Sissa, Thomas Sapsford, John R. Clarke, Tommaso Gazzarri, Judith P. Hallett, Donald Lateiner, Jesse Weiner, Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Kirk Ormand, Barbara K. Gold, Mark Masterson.