TransAntiquity : Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient World (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies)

Campanile, Domitilla (EDT)/ Carlà-Uhink, Filippo (EDT)/ Facella, Margherita (EDT)

Routledge（2019/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 276 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367874346
• DDC分類 306.778

Full Description

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.

Contents

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