Full Description
TransAntiquity explores transgender practices, in particular cross-dressing, and their literary and figurative representations in antiquity. It offers a comprehensive study of cross-dressing, both of the social practice and its conceptualization, and of 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 demonstrate just how complex and widespread "transgender dynamics" were in antiquity.
Contents
Domitilla Campanile, Filippo Carla-Uhink, and Margherita Facella, PrefacePart 1: Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient Social and Political SpaceFilippo Carla-Uhink, `Between the Human and the Divine': Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Graeco-Roman WorldAndrea Raggi, Cross-Dressing in Rome between Norm and PracticeDomitilla Campanile, The Patrician, the General and the Emperor in Women's Clothes. Examples of Cross-Dressing in Late Republican and Early Imperial RomeMartijn Icks, Cross-Dressers in Control. Transvestism, Power and the Balance between the Sexes in the Literary Discourse of the Roman EmpirePart 2: Ancient Transgender Dynamics and the Sacred SphereValerio Simini, Cross-Dressing and the Sexual Symbolism of the Divine Sphere in Pharaonic EgyptFiorella La Guardia, Aspects of Transvestism in Greek Myths and Rituals Margherita Facella, Beyond Ritual: Cross-Dressing between Greece and the OrientChiara O. Tommasi, Cross-Dressing as Discourse and Symbol in Late Antique Religion and LiteraturePart 3: Transgender as Subversive Literary DiscourseEnrico Medda, "O Saffron Robe, to what Pass have you brought me!" Cross-Dressing and Theatrical Illusion in Aristophanes' ThesmophoriazusaeChristian Stoffel, Declaiming and (Cross-)Dressing: Remixing Roman Declamation and its Metaphorology Bobby Xinyue, Imperatrix and bellatrix: Cicero's Clodia and Vergil's CamillaPart 4: Transgender MythFabio Guidetti, The Hero's White Hands. The Early History of the Myth of Achilles on ScyrosAlexandra Eppinger, Hercules cinaedus? The Effeminate Hero in Christian PolemicBibliographyIndex
