Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World

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Contents Abbreviations xiii Acknowledgments xv 1. Introduction 1 Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz 2. Imag(in)ing a Women’s World in Bronze Age Greece: 34 The Frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera Paul Rehak 3. Aphrodite Garlanded: Erôs and Poetic Creativity in Sappho 60 and Nossis Marilyn B. Skinner 4. Subjects, Objects, and Erotic Symmetry in Sappho’s Fragments 82 Ellen Greene 5. Excavating Women’s Homoeroticism in Ancient Greece: 106 The Evidence from Attic Vase Painting Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz 6. Women in Relief: “Double Consciousness” in Classical Attic 167 Tombstones John G. Younger 7. Glimpses through a Window: An Approach to Roman Female 211 Homoeroticism through Art Historical and Literary Evidence Lisa Auanger 8. Ovid’s Iphis and Ianthe: When Girls Won’t Be Girls 256 Diane T. Pintabone 9. Lucian’s “Leaena and Clonarium”: Voyeurism or a Challenge 286 to Assumptions? Shelley P. Haley 10. “Friendship and Physical Desire”: The Discourse of Female 304 Homoeroticism in Fifth-Century ce Egypt Terry G. Wilfong Works Cited 331 Notes on Contributors 373 Index 375 Illustrations 2.1. Plan of Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera. 35 2.2. Lustral-basin fresco, Xeste 3, ground floor. 38 2.3. Stone relief rhyton, Zakros palace, Crete. 39 2.4. Detail of lustral-basin women, Xeste 3, ground floor. 40 2.5. Male figures, Xeste 3, ground floor. 43 2.6. Goddess and girls, Xeste 3, upper floor. 44 2.7. Detail of goddess, Xeste 3, upper floor. 45 2.8. Mature woman, Xeste 3, upper floor. 47 5.1. Red-figure cup. Woman carding wool. 111 5.2a, b. Red-figure cup, fragments. Women exchanging gifts. 114 5.3. Red-figure krater. Women musicians. 118 5.4. Red-figure calyx krater. Women musicians. 118 5.5 I, a, b. Red-figure kylix. Interior (I), woman leading another; (a) and (b) exterior, pairs of women. 120–121 5.6. Red-figure pyxis. Bride and groom, with another woman. 122 5.7. Red-figure lebes gamikos. Woman placing necklace on the bride. 123 5.8. Red-figure lebes gamikos. Bride examining flute, while companion plays harp. 123 5.9. Red-figure lebes gamikos. Crowning of a bride. 124 5.10. Red-figure squat lekythos. Aphrodite and her companions. 127 5.11. Red-figure cup. Maenads. 128 5.12. Black-figure neck amphora. Dionysos and Maenads. 129 5.13. Black-figure lekythos. Two women sharing mantle. 131 5.14 a, b, c. Black-figure pyxis. Male-male, male-female, female-female couples. 132 5.15. Red-figure cup. Women’s symposion. 136 5.16. Red-figure hydria. Women’s symposion. 136 5.17. Red-figure amphora. Women bathing. 137 5.18 I, a, b. Red-figure cup. (I) Interior. Women dressing; (a) pairs of youths and women, two women together; (b) women and youth, women and boy. 139 5.19. Red-figure pelikê. Woman watering penis plants. 141 5.20. Red-figure cup. Women dancing at an erect phallus. 141 5.21 a, b. Red-figure cup. Women at bath with dildos. 143 5.22. Red-figure cup. Women with dildos. 144 5.23. Red-figure kantharos. Sexual scene with double-headed dildo. 144 5.24. Plate. Women with wreaths. 147 5.25. Red-figure cup. Sexual stimulation. 149 6.1. View of Plot 34 in Kerameikos cemetery. 168 6.2. Plan of Kerameikos cemetery. 169 6.3. Stele for seated woman, in front of whom second woman stands and holds box. 175 6.4. Stele for woman who died in childbirth; woman stands and looks at seated woman; between, woman (servant?) holds infant; in back of chair, another woman. 175 6.5. Stele for seated woman who clasps hands with second woman who stands and looks at her; in back of chair, girl. 177 6.6. Red-figure epinetron by the Eretria Painter. 180 6.7. Red-figure epinetron by the Eretria Painter. 180 6.8. Red-figure epinetron by the Eretria Painter. 180 6.9. Stele for Pausimakhe. 184 6.10. Cast of the stele for Demetria and Pamphile, from Kerameikos plot 20. 187 6.11. Relief from Pharsalus, Thessaly. 189 7.1. Sarcophagus showing Graces and Erotes. 224 7.2. Sarcophagus showing Muses. 227 7.3. Sarcophagus showing musical activity. 229 7.4. End of a sarcophagus showing two musicians dancing around an altar. 229 7.5. Helen...