To browse Academia. Skip to main content. Log In Sign Up. Gender and sexuality in the ancient world 4, Followers. Recent papers in Gender and sexuality in the ancient world. Barchiesi and W. Oxford: Oxford UP, Ancient evidence for female participation in arena spectacle dates to the Imperial Period in ancient Rome. Female arena performers played with gender conventions and were often cast in roles as exotic foreigners with mythical allusions, Female arena performers played with gender conventions and were often cast in roles as exotic foreigners with mythical allusions, which increased their entertainment value.
This study determines that the purpose of the female arena performer was to give spectators in the arena something entertaining and memorable to see. Positive impressions of such entertainers could later be used as social collateral to gain support for the editor's rise up the political ladder, or for the emperor to ingratiate himself with the people.
Nubit amicus: Same-sex weddings in Imperial Rome. This article presents ancient Roman texts dealing with the topic of same-sex weddings with the purpose of examining the reliability of these sources and contributing to the understanding of this element of the ancient tradition. In order In order to do so, this paper takes literary and historiographical sources and legal aspects into consideration, making use of research by Craig Williams, Bruce Frier, and Michael Fontaine.
In the closing section of the paper, I suggest a new interpretation for the punchline of the latter poem. Edited by Irmtraud Fischer and Juliana Claassens. Pages β Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, In Ancient Sex: New Essays. Blondell and K. Ohio State University Press, Madeleine M. Classical Literature and Posthumanism - 2nd edition.
The Sexuality of Adonis. Tra le sue opere: Il culto della dea Roma Pescara, ; Aspetti di vita quotidiana nella Roma arcaica Roma, ; La familia romana. Aspetti giuridici ed antiquari Roma, ; La familia romana. Parte II: Sponsalia. Adulterio Roma, Greek and Roman Marriage. Agathon and Agathon. Firstly, I examine the Platonic version, and the unique, idiosyncratic part Plato gives Agathon to play, as a host to all, and a hostage to Firstly, I examine the Platonic version, and the unique, idiosyncratic part Plato gives Agathon to play, as a host to all, and a hostage to Socrates.
