Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World -

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Gender identity and expression in ancient cultures are questioned in these 15 essays in light of our new understandings of sex and gender.

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Queering Classics - Allison Surtees and Jennifer Dyer Gender Construction 1. Gender Diversity in Classical Greek Thought - Walter Penrose, Jr. (San Diego State University) 2. Blending Bodies in Classical Greek Medicine - Tyson Sukava (University of Delaware) 3. Birth by Hammer: Pandora and the construction of bodies - Anna Uhlig (University of California, Davis) 4. Life After Transition: Spontaneous Sex Change and Its Aftermath in Ancient Literature - K.E. Shannon-Henderson (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa) Gender Fluidity 5. Neutrumque et Utrumque Videntur: Reappraising the gender-role(s) of Hermaphroditus in ancient art - Linnea ?shede (University of Gothenburg) 6. Intersex and Intertext: Ovid's Hermaphroditus and the Early Universe - Peter Kelly (University of Oregon) 7. Qu(e)r(y)ing Iphis' transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses - Rebecca Begum-Lees (University of Cambridge) 8. Ruling in the purpleY and wearing make-up: Gendered Adventures of Emperor Elagabalus as seen by Cassius Dio and Herodian - Jussi Rantala (University of Tampere) Transgender Identity 9. Allegorical Bodies: (trans)gendering Virtus in Statius' Thebaid 10 and Silius Italicus' Punica 15 - Dalida Agri (University of Manchester) 10. Performing Blurred Gender Lines: Revisiting Omphale and Hercules in Pompeian Dionysian Theatre Gardens - Lisa Hughes (University of Calgary) 11. The Politics of Transgender Representation in Apuleius' Golden Ass and Loukios, or the Ass - Evelyn Adkins (Case Western Reserve University) 12. Wit, Conventional Wisdom, and Willful Blindness: Intersections between Sex, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in the Fifth of Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans - Rowan Emily Ash (University of Western Ontario) Female Masculinity 13. Christianity Re-sexualised: Intertextuality and the Early Christian Novel - Brian Sowers (Brooklyn College) and Kimberly Passaro (University of Cincinnati) 14. Manly and Monstrous Women: (De-) Constructing Gender in Roman Oratory - Mary Deminion (University of Western Ontario) 15. The great escape: Reading Artemisia in Herodotus' Histories and 300: Rise of an Empire - Denise Eileen McCoskey (Miami University, Ohio) Selected Bibliography
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