Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Eunuchism was a subject which both intrigued and embarrassed the ancient world. The special virtue attributed to the castrated male at court, of undistracted loyalty to his ruler, aided the promotion of numerous eunuchs to positions of great power. A literary discourse developed, reviling and sometimes defending the eminence of these 'half-men'. Here, thirteen new studies from an international cast explore how eunuchs were perceived, and also reconstruct the realities of eunuchs' lives in Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Eastern culture.

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Utgivningsdatum:2002-06-01
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Greece, Rome, and Beyond
Antal sidor:284
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Classical Press of Wales
ISBN:9781914535697

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Shaun Tougher is Professor of Late Roman and Byzantine History at Cardiff University. He works especially on dynastic history (primarily the Constantinian and Macedonian dynasties) and on gender and society (notably women and questions of masculinity). His publications include The Reign of Leo VI (886-912) (Leiden, 1997), Julian the Apostate (Edinburgh, 2007), The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society (London and New York, 2008), and The Roman Castrati: Eunuchs in the Roman Empire (London and New York, 2021). He has also edited several volumes, including Approaches to the Byzantine Family (with Leslie Brubaker; Farnham and Burlington VT, 2013), The Emperor in the Byzantine World (Abingdon and New York, 2019), The Sons of Constantine, AD 337-361 (with Nicholas Baker-Brian; Cham, 2020), and Generalship in Ancient Greece, Roman and Byzantium (with Richard Evans; Edinburgh, 2022). In addition, he is a series editor for Debates and Documents in Ancient History (Edinburgh University Press) and New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan).

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Preface to the second editionIntroduction Shaun Tougher Acknowledgements 1. Eunuchs in history and society - Vern L. Bullough 2. Eunuchs and the royal harem in Achaemenid Persia (559-331 BC) - Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 3. Eunuchizing Agamemnon: Clytemnestra, Agamemnon and maschalismos - Ruth Bardel 4. Sacred eunuchism in the cult of the Syrian goddess - J.L. Lightfoot 5. Looking for eunuchs: the galli and Attis in Roman art - Shelley Hales 6. Eunuchs and gender transformation: Philo's exegesis of the Joseph narrative - Ra'anan Abusch 7. Eunuchs and early Christianity - Walter Stevenson 8. In or out? Origins of court eunuchs - Shaun Tougher9. 'Eunuchs of light'. Power, imperial ceremonial and positive representations of eunuchs in Byzantium (4th-12th centuries) - Georges Sidéris 10. Theophylact of Ochrid's In Defence of Eunuchs - Margaret Mullet 11. Eunuchs in the late Byzantine empire, c. 1250-1400 - Niels Gaul 12. Eunuch power in imperial China - Shih-shan Henry Tsai 13. The other castrati - Richard Witt Index