Abstract:O objetivo deste artigo é analisar representações textuais de sacerdotes considerados praticantes de rituais que envolviam cortes de seus órgãos genitais. Tais intervenções, tratadas aqui como castrações, foram vistas como perda da virilidade e transgenerização para o feminino na literatura greco-romana do período imperial. Sacerdotes castrados podem ser percebidos no mito de Átis (o consorte da deusa frígia Cibele, a Magna Mater), na literatura sobre os sacerdotes dessa deusa (os galli) e nas representações t… Show more
“…29. Williams (2010, p. 184), Crawford (2019, p. 20-22, 76), Silva (2020), andTougher (2021, p. 5, 18, 42). In Byzantium, some scholars believe that eunuchs occupied a "third gender" status, cf.…”
Section: Male Sex Is Discursively Presented As a Group Of C O H E S I...mentioning
This study aims to compare some images of beardless attendants in monumental reliefs from the Achaemenid (c. 550-330 BCE) and Neo-Assyrian (c. 911-612 BCE) empires, which we consider relevant sources for the study of court eunuchs and cultural conceptions about castrati. We argue that such comparisons are possible since eunuchism was a long-standing institution in the Ancient Near East, as shown by several analogies with the Assyrian evidence. We also argue that scholars have downplayed the importance of court eunuchs due to gender/sex assumptions based on Western and modern perspectives that consider eunuchism incompatible with high-ranking social standing. With these theoretical considerations in mind, we finally sketch some possible analytical proposals to explore the images of beardless attendants in Persia and Assyria.
“…29. Williams (2010, p. 184), Crawford (2019, p. 20-22, 76), Silva (2020), andTougher (2021, p. 5, 18, 42). In Byzantium, some scholars believe that eunuchs occupied a "third gender" status, cf.…”
Section: Male Sex Is Discursively Presented As a Group Of C O H E S I...mentioning
This study aims to compare some images of beardless attendants in monumental reliefs from the Achaemenid (c. 550-330 BCE) and Neo-Assyrian (c. 911-612 BCE) empires, which we consider relevant sources for the study of court eunuchs and cultural conceptions about castrati. We argue that such comparisons are possible since eunuchism was a long-standing institution in the Ancient Near East, as shown by several analogies with the Assyrian evidence. We also argue that scholars have downplayed the importance of court eunuchs due to gender/sex assumptions based on Western and modern perspectives that consider eunuchism incompatible with high-ranking social standing. With these theoretical considerations in mind, we finally sketch some possible analytical proposals to explore the images of beardless attendants in Persia and Assyria.
Com o intuito de discutir a importância das teorias sociais para o estudo da Antiguidade, o presente artigo utiliza o conceito de gênero para um estudo específico sobre os homens castrados no Império Romano. Nesta empreitada, por um lado, são destacadas questões referentes à hierarquização das masculinidades dos indivíduos escravizados e que foram submetidos à prática da castração. Por outro lado, enfatiza-se a importância da documentação epigráfica para uma compreensão mais acurada a respeito dos castrados.
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