Ancient Rape Cultures: Sexual Violence in the Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Early Christian World - Elina Pyy - Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 53

Formato: 21x29,7
Lingua: Inglese
Pagine: 309



"In the past thirty years, the study of gender-based violence has established itself as a legitimate course of inquiry in the field of Classics and Ancient History. While pioneering studies touching upon the theme were already written in the 1970s and the 1980s,1 a particularly crucial period for “ancient rape studies” was the 1990s – an important decade for the development of ancient gender studies as a whole. In the aftermath of second-wave feminism and in the grip of the “postfeminist” cultural shift, numerous scholars, in particular in the Anglo-American research sphere, started asking questions about the intimate connection between sexuality, power, and violence in the ancient sources and societies." (from the introduction)

Sommario

Elina Pyy, Introduction

Rape in Greek Culture and Thought

Suzanne Lynch, Rape Culture in Classical Athens

Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, Taking Thratta’s Cherry: The Rape of Enslaved Domestic Laborers in Aristophanes

Brian McPhee, Rape Normalization and Menandrian Apologetics in Callimachus’ Acontius and Cydippe

Rape Narratives in Roman Literature

Simona Martorana, Medusa in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Refracted Rapes

Ben Jerue, An Ancient Greek Custom? Reading the Rape of the Sabine Women in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 2, 30

Ash Finn, Sexual Violence and the So-called ‘Gains of Vengeance’ in Ancient Rome

Imperial Ideology and Colonial Discourses

Eleanor Newman, The Sexual Exploitation of African Males in Roman Material Culture

Antti Lampinen, Boudica’s Daughters: Conquest and Rape in the Ancient Roman Discourse

Francesca Bellei, Donna or domina? Manipulating Italia’s gender from ancient Rome to 19th-century Italian colonialism

Revolutions of Rape Culture in Late Antiquity

Judith Evans-Grubbs, Rape and the Christian Virgin: St. Thekla’s Power against Sexual Assault

Alexander Thies, For the Good of the Empire: A Wedding in Milan, Imperial Succession, and the Creation of Ritualised Rape Culture in the Late Antique Court

Biblical Receptions

Louis Zweig, Listening for Dinah in Abelard’s Planctus and Other Latin Poems

Chris Greenough, Sexual Violence Against Men in the Bible

Ancient rape Cultures on the Contemporary Screen

Briana King, From Antiquity to Screen: Sexual Violence in Greco-Roman Art and its Modern Representations in Caligula (1979) and Spartacus (2010-2013)

Elina Pyy, Ovid’s Pygmalion and Daphne Myths in 21st-Century Body Horror Film: Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In and Lim Woo-Seong’s Vegetarian

List of contributors