Among women
Subtitle: from the homosocial to the homoerotic in the ancient world
By: edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger.
Contributors: Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin.; Auanger, Lisa, 1965-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Lesbians -- History -- To 500; Lesbians in art; Art, Classical; Lesbians in literature; Literature, Classical; Civilization, Classical
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-371) and index.
Table of contents: title: Imag(in)ing a women's world in Bronze Age Greece: the frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera / Paul Rebak; title: Aphrodite garlanded: Erôs and poetic creativity in Sappho and Nossis / Marilyn B. Skinner; title: Subjects, objects, and erotic symmetry in Sappho's fragments / Ellen Greene; title: Excavating women's homoeroticism in ancient Greece: the evidence fro Attic vase painting / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz; title: Women in relief: "double consciousness" in classical Attic tombstones / John G. Younger; title: Glimpses through a window: an approach to Roman female homoeroticism through art historical and literary evidence / Lisa Auanger; title: Ovid's Iphis and Ianthe: when girls won't be girls / Diane T. Pintabone; title: Lucian's "Leaena and Clonarium": voyeurism or a challenge to assumptions? / Shelley P. Haley; title: "Friendship and physical desire": the discourse of female homoeroticism in fifth-century C.E. Egypt / Terry G. Wilfong.