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Sexual-Gender (Dis)-Symmetry?

Daphnis & Chloe, Marc Chagall. Sexual-Gender (Dis)-Symmetry?. Daphnis & Chloe 1. Syrinx (pan pipe). Pan and Syrinx , Godecharle (1804). Agenda. Longus’ Daphnis & Chloe Introduction Nature versus Culture Winkler on D&C as Thought Experiment Discussion

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Sexual-Gender (Dis)-Symmetry?

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  1. Daphnis & Chloe, Marc Chagall Sexual-Gender (Dis)-Symmetry? Daphnis & Chloe 1

  2. Syrinx (pan pipe) Pan and Syrinx, Godecharle (1804)

  3. Agenda • Longus’ Daphnis & Chloe • Introduction • Nature versus Culture • Winkler on D&C as Thought Experiment • Discussion • D&C and the Finnis-Nussbaum Debate Daphnis & Chloe 1

  4. Longus’ Daphnis & Chloe Introduction

  5. D&C: Basic Facts • Composition date • ca. 200 CE • Language • Greek • Setting • “Classical” Lesbos • Genre • Prose romance • Bucolic • aka pastoral • Bildungsroman • Education in erōs • New Comedy • Marriage & household • “Second sophistic” • Allusive, rhetorical Aphrodite, Eros, Pan (1st BCE) Daphnis & Chloe 1

  6. PROLOGUE nature / art creative erōs madness / sanity BOOK 1 birth, rearing, education in nature Eros – who’s that? wolf-trap, D objectified Dorcon “wolf” D/C switch clothes Pirates: C rescues D BOOK 2 vintage fest, Chloe oggled Philetas education in eros homoerotic attraction age issues eros illness, cure BOOK 2 (cont.) Methymnian louts Daphnis “tried” war, C abducted, country v. town BOOK 3 winter separation D’s “more ingenuity than a girl” Lycaenion courts D echo: D understands, C doesn’t C’s/D’s marriage to – others? D’s windfall BOOK 4 Lampis courts C Gnathon courts D Lampis kidnaps C parentage revealed, wedding approved D&C: Analysis Daphnis & Chloe 1

  7. Nature versus Culture Winkler on D&C as Thought Experiment

  8. D&C as Thought-Experiment Social/sexual acculturation Questions: What is… (Un)natural? (Un)conventional? (Un)destined? • Unsupervised • Supervised Winkler, John J. “The Education of Chloe: Hidden Injuries of Sex.” The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece. New York: Routledge, 1990. 101–26. Daphnis & Chloe 1

  9. Discussion D&C and the Finnis-Nussbaum Debate

  10. Finnis v. Nussbaum Finnis Nussbaum Greek texts “force us to confront the fact that much of what we consider necessary and natural in our own practices is actually local and nonuniversal” (1518–19), whence empathy for difference “… thoughts which have historically been implicit in the judgments of many non-philosophical people, and which have been held to justify the laws adopted in many nations and states” before and after the advent of Christianity (1063). Daphnis & Chloe 1

  11. Journal Prompt Does the gender/sexuality value system animating this text seem congruent with (similar to, parallel to) that underpinning the views of a Finnis or Nussbaum? If so, or even if not, does that fact offer insight into questions those two debate

  12. Discussion Daphnis & Chloe 1

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