The feminine matrix of sex and gender in classical Athens
By: Kate Gilhuly.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780521899987
Subjects: Women in literature; Sex in literature; Greek literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Collapsing order : typologies of women in the speech against Neaira; title: Why is Diotima a priestess? : the feminine continuum in Plato's Symposium; title: Bringing the polis home : private performance and the civic gaze in Xenophon's symposium; title: Sex and sacrifice in Aristophanes' Lysistrata.