Ancient Rape Cultures: Sexual Violence in the Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Early Christian Word

Ancient Rape Cultures: Sexual Violence in the Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Early Christian WorldA cura di: Elina Pyy Anno edizione: 2025 Collana: Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 53 Isbn: 978-88-5491-642-5 Issn: 0538-2270 Materie: storia antica, filologia classica Formato: 21×29,7 Lingua: Inglese Pagine: 309 “In the past thirty years, the study of gender-based violence has established itself as a legitimate course of inquiry in the field of Classics and Ancient History. While pioneering studies touching upon the theme were already written in the 1970s and the 1980s,1 a particularly crucial period for “ancient rape studies” was the 1990s – an important decade for the development of ancient gender studies as a whole. In the aftermath of second-wave feminism and in the grip of the “postfeminist” cultural shift, numerous scholars, in particular in the Anglo-American research sphere, started asking questions about the intimate connection between sexuality, power, and violence in the ancient sources and societies.” (from the introduction)SommarioElina Pyy, IntroductionRape in Greek Culture and ThoughtSuzanne Lynch, Rape Culture in Classical AthensSarah Brucia Breitenfeld, Taking Thratta’s Cherry: The Rape of Enslaved Domestic Laborers in AristophanesBrian McPhee, Rape Normalization and Menandrian Apologetics in Callimachus’ Acontius and CydippeRape Narratives in Roman LiteratureSimona Martorana, Medusa in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Refracted RapesBen Jerue, An Ancient Greek Custom? Reading the Rape of the Sabine Women in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 2, 30Ash Finn, Sexual Violence and the So-called ‘Gains of Vengeance’ in Ancient RomeImperial Ideology and Colonial DiscoursesEleanor Newman, The Sexual Exploitation of African Males in Roman Material CultureAntti Lampinen, Boudica’s Daughters: Conquest and Rape in the Ancient Roman DiscourseFrancesca Bellei, Donna or domina? Manipulating Italia’s gender from ancient Rome to 19th-century Italian colonialismRevolutions of Rape Culture in Late AntiquityJudith Evans-Grubbs, Rape and the Christian Virgin: St. Thekla’s Power against Sexual AssaultAlexander Thies, For the Good of the Empire: A Wedding in Milan, Imperial Succession, and the Creation of Ritualised Rape Culture in the Late Antique CourtBiblical ReceptionsLouis Zweig, Listening for Dinah in Abelard’s Planctus and Other Latin PoemsChris Greenough, Sexual Violence Against Men in the BibleAncient rape Cultures on the Contemporary ScreenBriana King, From Antiquity to Screen: Sexual Violence in Greco-Roman Art and its Modern Representations in Caligula (1979) and Spartacus (2010-2013)Elina Pyy, Ovid’s Pygmalion and Daphne Myths in 21st-Century Body Horror Film: Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In and Lim Woo-Seong’s VegetarianList of contributors