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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 477
Utgivningsdatum: 1993-04-01
Förlag: University of California Press
Illustratör/Fotograf: 345 illustrations
Illustrationer: 345 b&w illustrations
Dimensioner: 230 x 150 x 25 mm
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ISBN: 9780520079298

The Reign of the Phallus

Name: The Reign of the Phallus
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Author: Eva C Keuls
ISBN: 9780520079298

Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens

av Eva C Keuls

Häftad, Engelska, 1993-04-01

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At once daring and authoritative, this book offers a profusely illustrated history of sexual politics in ancient Athens. The phallus was pictured everywhere in ancient Athens: painted on vases, sculpted in marble, held aloft in gigantic form in public processions, and shown in stage comedies. This obsession with the phallus dominated almost every aspect of public life, influencing law, myth, and customs, affecting family life, the status of women, even foreign policy. This is the first book to draw together all the elements that made up the 'reign of the phallus' - men's blatant claim to general dominance, the myths of rape and conquest of women, and the reduction of sex to a game of dominance and submission, both of women by men and of men by men. In her elegant and lucid text Eva Keuls not only examines the ideology and practices that underlay the reign of the phallus, but also uncovers an intense counter-movement - the earliest expressions of feminism and antimilitarism. Complementing the text are 345 reproductions of Athenian vase paintings. Some have been reproduced in a larger format and gathered in an appendix for easy reference and closer study. These revealing illustrations are a vivid demonstration that classical Athens was more sexually polarized and repressive of women than any other culture in Western history.

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The volumes published in the series Beitrage zur Altertumskunde comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient P...

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"This book is well written and intended for a wide audience; both the professional scholar and the general reader will find it provocative and diverting."--Sarah B. Pomeroy, "Classical World

Eva C. Keuls is Classics Professor at the University of Minnesota, the author of many scholarly articles, and a recognized authority on both Greek literature and vase painting. She is a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Military Expeditions, Protest, Lament, and Scandal 2. Attic Mythology: Barren Goddesses, Male Wombs, and the Cult of Rape 3. The Phallus and the Box: The World Seen in the Shapes of Human Genitals 4. Bearing Children, Watching the House 5. Brides of Death, in More Ways Than One 6. The Athenian Prostitute: A Good Buy in the Agora 7. The Whore with the Golden Heart, the Happy Hooker, and other Fictions 8. Two Kinds of Women: The Splitting of the Female Psyche 9. The Sex Appeal of Female Toil 10. Easier to Live with Than a Wife: The Concubine 11. The Boy Beautiful: Replacing a Woman or Replacing a Son? 12. Learning to Be a Man, Learning to Be a Woman 13. Sex Among the Barbarians 14. Classical Tragedy: Weaving Men's Dream of Sexual Strife 15. Sex Antagonism and Women's Rituals 16. Love, Not War: Protest in the Arts and on the Streets Epilogue Notes Bibliography Supplementary Bibliography Sources of Illustrations Index Appendix