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Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome de Amy Richlin

Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome

Editat de Amy Richlin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 iul 1992
The first large-scale application of feminist theory to the study of Greek and Roman cultures, this book points to some striking similarities between our culture and that of the ancient world, challenging Foucauldian assumptions about the nature of sexuality. Covering such topics as vase
painting, tragic and comic drama from fifth-century Athens, Hellenistic philosophy and sex manuals, Roman history, poetry, wall-painting, representations of gladiatorial combat, and romance novels, the contributors approach sexuality from both sides of the feminist pornography debate, including the
use of film theory. A path-breaking application of feminist theory to the study of Greek and Roman cultures, this text offers new insight into the notion of sexuality in the ancient world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780195067231
ISBN-10: 0195067231
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: halftones
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Descriere

This collection of essays represents one of the very few large-scale applications of feminist theory to Greco-Roman antiquity. It is unusual in that texts and works of art are considered jointly. The essays consider Greek tragedy and major figures such as Aristophanes, the Roman historian Livy and the poet Ovid from a feminist perspective; they take into account the new work being done on ancient novels; and they deal with previously neglected topics such as theanthologist Athenaeus, and the fragments of erotic handbooks (the ancient pornographers).

Recenzii

This is a very good collection indeed. It includes a variety of approaches to pornography, covers a wide range of materials from painting and mosaics to tragedy and the ancient novel, gives attention to presentations both of sex and of violence, as well as to the intersection of the two domains, and shows considerable sophistication in modern theories of pornography and the oppression of womnen. Some of the ground covered is quite fresh (e.g. the attention given to Athenaeusor to the ancient sex manuals), and more familiar works are freshly interpreted...As a set, the papers make a substantial contribution to classical studies, bringing to bear a complex feminist perspective in an informed, clear, compelling way. This is very much needed, and should have considerableappeal to classicists, feminist critics and students, and to anyone interested in antiquity and sexuality.
Richlin's introduction to the volume questions several of our standard tactics in reading the classical canon of texts ... in the context of mainstream classical scholarship, it amounts to a new agenda and a demand for a new set of reading practices ... a brilliant new reading of one of the most neglected texts of ancient literature; here, to continue Athenaeus' metaphor, is the proof of the pudding.