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Same Old or New Old?

Same Old or New Old?. Images of Sex and Gender in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean. Nussbaum on evidence forcing “us to confront the fact that much of what we consider necessary and natural in our own practices is actually local and nonuniversal …” (1518–1519)

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Same Old or New Old?

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  1. Same Old or New Old? Images of Sex and Gender in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean

  2. Nussbaum on evidence forcing “us to confront the fact that much of what we consider necessary and natural in our own practices is actually local and nonuniversal…” (1518–1519) Finnis on “influential [ancient] philosophical writers … who taught that homosexual conduct is … shameful [and misogynistic]” (1061)

  3. Agenda • Project Goat • Stable or Dynamic? Imperial Roman Sex-Gender • Project Bath • Sexual Images in Suburban Baths, Pompeii Ancient Sexuality and Gender

  4. Project Goat Stable or Dynamic? Imperial Roman Sex-Gender

  5. Lesbos Naples, Pompeii, Herculaneum Thessaly Carthage Maduara Oea

  6. When… Greece, 550: BCE–CE 200 Periods covered in course Rome, 200 BCE–125 CE Trojan War ca. 1,200 BCE Rome founded 753 BCE Athenian democracy 400s–300s B.C. 1,000 B.C. 1,000 A.D. Roman Empire27 BCE–CE 475 Roman Republic510–27 BCE

  7. Things to Think About… • Ideological • stability, dynamism • Sexual/gender • symmetry, asymmetry • Affective… • connection, disconnect • Viewer and… • Object, owner Ancient Sexuality and Gender

  8. Red-figure Attic vase: Pan pursues boy (note herm)

  9. hē numphē kalē, “The bride is beautiful.” Timodēmos kalos, “Timodemos is handsome.” Attic Red Figure alabastron, ca. 465 BCE

  10. Demure rejection (?).Greek: Paestum, Italy, ca. 450 BCE

  11. Agate gemstone, unknown provenance, Greek inscription(homoerotic couple)

  12. Delos rhyton, 2nd cent. BCE(Hellenistic)

  13. Ortiz Vase, 30 BCE-30 CE

  14. Portrait statue: Roman matrona as Omphaleca. 200 CE, Vatican, Rome

  15. Arretine Ware (30 BCE-30 CE) mass-produced ceramics…

  16. Pan and Goat, Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum

  17. Project Bath Sexual Images in Suburban Baths, Pompeii

  18. Hic habitat felicitas (Archaeological Museum, Naples)

  19. “Woburn Marble” - an eye on the evil eye(ca. 200 CE) A gladiator fights his own phallus.(1st-cent. CE Wind-chime from Pompeii)

  20. Suburban (extramural) Baths, Pompeii

  21. apodyterium

  22. Apodyterium, South Wall, Frescos Painted representation of numbered changing boxes, erotic scenes

  23. Laterover-painting I. Venus pendula

  24. IV. Cunnilingus

  25. VIII. Hydrocoelic poet reading from his works?

  26. Suburban Baths – Discussion Ancient Sexuality and Gender

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