Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World

Surtees, Allison; Dyer, Jennifer

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“…Embedded in these studies are adjacent issues such as gender and social status. These works, along with others directly addressing transformation, sexuality, 'blackness', and other timely topics, are laying the groundwork for intersectional approaches to Greek art going forward (Gondek and Sulosky Weaver 2019;Surtees and Dyer 2020;Derbew 2022;Murray 2022;Deacy, Magalhães and Menzies 2023).…”

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8 Greek art: recent developments and current trends

Smith

2023

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This review essay focuses on recent developments and trends in the study of ancient Greek art. The publications covered date primarily to the period beginning in 2017–2018, though selected earlier works have been included where considered to be of particular merit or importance. Examples have been chosen to span and represent the long Archaic to Hellenistic phases (eighth–first century BC), and a full range of artistic categories and media have been featured in the discussions. In order to structure the large quantity of bibliography available, the presentation is divided into several broad categories according to themes (e.g. sites, reports, guides; exhibitions, conferences, Festschriften) or materials (e.g. sculpture and terracottas; metals, coins, gems, and jewellery). Where possible, digital resources applicable to the discipline have also been mentioned and cited. By way of conclusion, some general observations are made about the subjects of Greek art that seem not only to be the most prevalent in recent scholarship, but also transcend artistic medium, style, and scale – among them the body and adornment, senses and emotion, aesthetics and beauty, religion and performance, and archaeological contexts and intercultural connections.

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8 Greek art: recent developments and current trends

Smith

2023

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“…The essays in this volume show that classical Greek and Roman history is the history of all genders… a history that includes identities that are gender-fluid or gender blending (varyingly masculine and feminine) … and transgender (identifying with a gender that does not correspond to the sex assigned at birth). 10 This volume continues to show various ways in which contemporary definitions or identities can be applied to make the past more legible while also demonstrating that more gender categories existed in Greco-Roman Antiquity than 'the cisheteronormative gender binary that dominates today' would have us believe. 11 The stances presented by these two volumes -which we can sum up as 'a transgender identity has only existed since the last decade of the twentieth century' and 'Greek and Roman history is the history of all genders' -represent this first barrier in historicising trans pasts: constructed otherness versus essentialised legibility.…”

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“…10 This volume continues to show various ways in which contemporary definitions or identities can be applied to make the past more legible while also demonstrating that more gender categories existed in Greco-Roman Antiquity than 'the cisheteronormative gender binary that dominates today' would have us believe. 11 The stances presented by these two volumes -which we can sum up as 'a transgender identity has only existed since the last decade of the twentieth century' and 'Greek and Roman history is the history of all genders' -represent this first barrier in historicising trans pasts: constructed otherness versus essentialised legibility. This barrier reduces my students' take-away from assigned articles and class discussion among themselves to a single question: can we apply modern labels to the past in order to make it legible, or by applying modern labels do we erase the differences of past cultures and peoples?…”

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Writing trans histories with an ethics of care, while reading gender in imperial Roman literature

Merkley

2023

Gender & History

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Two major barriers interfere with writing trans histories of the premodern world: the conflict between creating a legible or foreignised past and balancing the vastness of the social system of gender against individual performances of gender identity. In this article, I propose one methodology to bypass these barriers. Additionally, this methodology reminds us that both gender and history are systems which we use to generate narratives about ourselves and that these narratives always care for and nourish certain people. Here, I issue a call for trans historians to unabashedly write histories that care for and nourish trans lives.

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“…10 Rabinowitz 1993, 1-3. 11 Foxhall 2013 12 "Intersectionality inAntiquity" 2015;Foxhall 2013;Surtees and Dyer 2020;Kapparis 2021;Sulosky Weaver 2022.…”

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Sisters of Sparta: An Intersectional Approach to Depictions of Helen and Clytemnestra in Fifth-Century BCE Athens.

Jacobsen

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This thesis uses an intersectional approach to understand Helen’s and Clytemnestra’s depictions in fifth-century BCE Athenian artforms. It investigates specifically the role that these women’s identities play in their depictions in vases and tragedy. By examining both vases and tragedy we can see whether the Athenians’ use of Helen’s and Clytemnestra’s identities varied depending on a form’s purpose.The application of feminist theory in general to Classical Studies has only seen a rise in the last few decades. The use of intersectionality theory specifically has only become popular in the last decade. By using an intersectional approach, this thesis will shed more light on why the ancient Athenians chose to depict female mythological figures in their varying artforms as well as the significance of women’s different identities to this choice. In doing so, it will contribute to scholarship looking at intersectionality theory’s usefulness as an analytical tool to understand the ancient world and further illuminate our understanding of the use of ancient stereotypes surrounding gender. Moreover, given the cultural and historical construction of gender and its surrounding stereotypes, as well as the differing purposes of vase painters and playwrights, this thesis also contributes to the idea that retellings of myth reflect both their creators and their intended audiences.This thesis is divided into two main parts; the first looks at Helen’s depictions on vases and then her depictions in tragedy, while the second looks at Clytemnestra’s depictions on vases and then her depictions in tragedy.

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Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World

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8 Greek art: recent developments and current trends

8 Greek art: recent developments and current trends

Writing trans histories with an ethics of care, while reading gender in imperial Roman literature

Sisters of Sparta: An Intersectional Approach to Depictions of Helen and Clytemnestra in Fifth-Century BCE Athens.

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