Searching for the Cinaedus in Ancient Rome /

Searching for the Cinaedus in Ancient Rome /

The cryptic figure of the cinaedus recurs in both the literature and daily life of the Roman world. His afterlife - the equally cryptic catamite - appears to be well and alive as late as Victorian England. But who was the cinaedus ? Should we think of a real group of individuals, or is the term but...

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Other Authors: Gazzarri, Tommaso (Editor), Weiner, Jesse (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 475.

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Gender nonconformity.
Sex > Mediterranean Region > History.

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Call Number: HQ77.2.M53

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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction: Searching for the Cinaedus in Classical Antiquity
  • Tommaso Gazzarri () and Jesse Weiner ()
  • 1 κιναίδων βίος: Lifestyle, and Sensuality in Ancient Greek Thought
  • Giulia Sissa ()
  • 2 Cleomachus: a Study in 'Cinaedic' Associations
  • Thomas Sapsford ()
  • 3 Representing the Cinaedus in Roman Visual Culture: Seeing, Speaking, Touching
  • John R. Clarke ()
  • 4 Cinaedus Galbinatus : Cultural Perception of the Color 'Green' and Its Gender Association with Pathici in Rome
  • Tommaso Gazzarri ()
  • 5 Connotation and 'Com-motion': Putting the Kinesis into the Roman Cinaedus
  • Judith P. Hallett () and Donald Lateiner ()
  • 6 The Kinaidos Comes to Rome: Plautus' Cinaedi
  • Jesse Weiner ()
  • 7 The ' Chorus Cinaedorum ' in Apuleius' Golden Ass
  • Benjamin Eldon Stevens ()
  • 8 Did (Imaginary) Cinaedi Have Sex with Women?
  • Kirk Ormand ()
  • 9 Can a Woman Be a Cinaedus ? Interrogating Catullus 10 and Roman Social Norms
  • Barbara K. Gold ()
  • 10 Kinaidos : the Afterlife of a Term in the Byzantine Empire
  • Mark Masterson ()
  • Index.