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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Luc Brisson |
ISBN: | 0520231481 9780520231481 0520223918 9780520223912 |
OCLC Number: | 45750252 |
Language Note: | Translated from Le Sexe incertain (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1997). |
Description: | xiv, 195 pages ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | 1. Monsters. An Ominous Prodigy. An Error of Nature. A Phenomenon -- 2. Dual Sexuality and Homosexuality. The Myth of Hermaphroditus, as Told by Ovid. Masculinity and Femininity in Ancient Greece and Rome. Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome -- 3. Archetypes. The Myth of Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium. Orphism. Gnosticism. The Chaldean Oracles. The Hermetic Corpus. The Phoenix -- 4. Mediators. The Myth of Tiresias. A Brief Bestiary Associated with the Myth of Tiresias. |
Series Title: | Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. |
Other Titles: | Sexe incertain. |
Responsibility: | by Luc Brisson ; translated by Janet Lloyd. |
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Abstract:
A collection and translation of most of the extant written Graeco-Roman material on human beings and others who were said to a have been both male and female. Brisson sets the material within its historical and intellectual contexts.
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