Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World

Allison Surtees is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg. Jennifer Dyer is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is the author of Serial Images: The Modern Art of Iteration (Lit Verlag, 2011).

This collection of essays on gender and sexual diversity in antiquity showcases a broad range of topics, approaches and time periods. The essays use philosophy, post-humanist theory, film reception, medicine, cross-cultural comparisons, intersectional theory, and rhetoric to tease out new and interesting ideas about sex and gender. Of great interest to anyone teaching a course on this topic.

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Queering Classics - Allison Surtees and Jennifer DyerGender Construction1. Gender Diversity in Classical Greek Thought - Walter Penrose, Jr. (San Diego State University)2. Blending Bodies in Classical Greek Medicine - Tyson Sukava (University of Delaware)3. Birth by Hammer: Pandora and the construction of bodies - Anna Uhlig (University of California, Davis)4. Life After Transition: Spontaneous Sex Change and Its Aftermath in Ancient Literature - K.E. Shannon-Henderson (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa)Gender Fluidity5. Neutrumque et Utrumque Videntur: Reappraising the gender-role(s) of Hermaphroditus in ancient art - Linnea Åshede (University of Gothenburg)6. Intersex and Intertext: Ovid’s Hermaphroditus and the Early Universe - Peter Kelly (University of Oregon)7. Qu(e)r(y)ing Iphis’ transformation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses - Rebecca Begum-Lees (University of Cambridge)8. Ruling in the purpleY and wearing make-up: Gendered Adventures of Emperor Elagabalus as seen by Cassius Dio and Herodian - Jussi Rantala (University of Tampere)Transgender Identity9. Allegorical Bodies: (trans)gendering Virtus in Statius’ Thebaid 10 and Silius Italicus’ Punica 15 - Dalida Agri (University of Manchester)10. Performing Blurred Gender Lines: Revisiting Omphale and Hercules in Pompeian Dionysian Theatre Gardens - Lisa Hughes (University of Calgary)11. The Politics of Transgender Representation in Apuleius’ Golden Ass and Loukios, or the Ass - Evelyn Adkins (Case Western Reserve University)12. Wit, Conventional Wisdom, and Willful Blindness: Intersections between Sex, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in the Fifth of Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans - Rowan Emily Ash (University of Western Ontario)Female Masculinity13. Christianity Re-sexualised: Intertextuality and the Early Christian Novel - Brian Sowers (Brooklyn College) and Kimberly Passaro (University of Cincinnati)14. Manly and Monstrous Women: (De-) Constructing Gender in Roman Oratory - Mary Deminion (University of Western Ontario)15. The great escape: Reading Artemisia in Herodotus’ Histories and 300: Rise of an Empire - Denise Eileen McCoskey (Miami University, Ohio)Selected BibliographyIndex