Looking at sex and sexuality from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in a variety of media, Sex in Antiquity represents a vibrant picture of the discipline of ancient gender and sexuality studies, showcasing the work of leading international scholars as well as that of emerging talents and new voices.

Sexuality and gender in the ancient world is an area of research that has grown quickly with often sudden shifts in focus and theoretical standpoints. This volume contextualizes these shifts while putting in place new ideas and avenues of exploration that further develop this lively field. This broad study also includes studies of gender and sexuality in the Ancient Near East which not only provide rich consideration of those areas but also provide a comparative perspective not often found in such collections. Sex in Antiquity is a major contribution to the field of ancient gender and sexuality studies.

About the Author

Mark Masterson is Senior Lecturer of Classics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is author of Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood (2014). He has published articles and book chapters on Statius, Vitruvius, the Historia Monachorum, Eugene O'Neill, Emperor Julian, St. Augustine and current New Zealand health policy, and the state of masculinity studies in Classics. He is currently completing a monograph on same-sex desire between Byzantine men, entitled Between Byzantine Men: Desire, Brotherhood, and Male Culture in the Medieval Empire.

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, USA. Author of Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women (1993) and Greek Tragedy (2008), she has co-edited Vision and Viewing in Ancient Greece, with Sue Blundell and Douglas Cairns (2013), Feminist Theory and the Classics, with Amy Richlin (Routledge, 1993), Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World, with Lisa Auanger (2002), as well as From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom, with Fiona McHardy (2014), which won the Teaching Literature Book Award 2015. She is one of the co-editors and translators of Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (1999).

James Robson is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University, UK. His previous publications include Humour, Obscenity and Aristophanes (2006); Aristophanes: An Introduction (shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award, 2009); Ctesias' History of Persia: Tales of the Orient (with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones; 2010) and Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens (2013).

Reviews

"[T]he editors of and contributors to this volume offer insightful and sometimes unexpected conversations that take place between current and past scholarship, and provide opportunities to explore the trajectories that scholarship on sex, sexuality, and gender in antiquity might now take... Overall, [the volume] offers thoughtful reflections on how current scholarship on gender and sexuality in antiquity got to where it is today and provides new avenues of inquiry."

- F. Mira Green, University of Washington (USA), in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"This volume is absolutely superb: from cover to cover, 30 chapters and an introduction, it is a tour de force ... The contributions are informative, insightful, articulate and well researched ... the book is an impressive and important work and a necessary read for scholars of the ancient world and sexuality studies."

- Darlene M. Juschka, University of Regina (Canada) in The Classical Review

"Recommended"

- J. M. Williams, SUNY Geneseo in CHOICE

"This is an excellent resource not only for researchers in history, social sciences, and philosophy, but also for teachers of courses in ancient civilization, providing information that could enrich more traditional approaches."

- Christian Perring, Metapsychology Online Reviews

Book Information
ISBN 9781138480414
Author Mark Masterson
Format Paperback
Page Count 568
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 1520g