Add to ORKGThis paper seeks to contextualize the representations of the relationship of Athena and Herakles in art within the established cultural and artistic practices and the artistic conventions employed to convey meaning. Artistic representations of Athena and Herakles repeatedly make use of sexually charged types in extant art, with Athena frequently reversing gender norms and seemingly establishing herself as a sexually dominant partner of Herakles. Such artistic representations appear at odds with extant literary sources, and may represent unknown narratives, or interpretations of extant myths. Possible readings of these sexualized representations of Athena and Herakles’ relationship are potentially numerous, but they show that their relations...
Current studies on the topic of sexuality in the ancient Greek world tend to favour the active/passi...
This dissertation investigates adultery and the appropriation of ritual space in Classical Greece, f...
What did sex mean to the ancient Romans? In this lavishly illustrated study, John R. Clarke investig...
This paper seeks to contextualize the representations of the relationship of Athena and Herakles in ...
Experts in human sexuality have theorized that a person’s sexual orientation is the result of a numb...
In the early modern period Greek myths and their figurative translations were sometime employed to l...
The much discussed subject of the heterosexual couple represented in Greek art is here re-examined o...
Visual culture has much to contribute to an understanding of the history of sexuality. Yet, to date,...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-183)This thesis gives a religious and historical acco...
Hermaphroditos, the personage in Greek and Roman myth and iconography possessing both male and femal...
Recent studies regarding multiple sexualities in Greek and Roman Antiquity (or at least practices th...
Eros, God of Love/ God Is Love. In Antiquity Eros (Love) was a God. In the modern age, the message ...
Includes bibliographical references.When dealing with ancient artifacts, scholars often forget that ...
The first large-scale application of feminist theory to the study of Greek and Roman cultures, this ...
This paper investigates the female nude in ancient Greek monumental sculpture based on the Aphrodite...
Current studies on the topic of sexuality in the ancient Greek world tend to favour the active/passi...
This dissertation investigates adultery and the appropriation of ritual space in Classical Greece, f...
What did sex mean to the ancient Romans? In this lavishly illustrated study, John R. Clarke investig...
This paper seeks to contextualize the representations of the relationship of Athena and Herakles in ...
Experts in human sexuality have theorized that a person’s sexual orientation is the result of a numb...
In the early modern period Greek myths and their figurative translations were sometime employed to l...
The much discussed subject of the heterosexual couple represented in Greek art is here re-examined o...
Visual culture has much to contribute to an understanding of the history of sexuality. Yet, to date,...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-183)This thesis gives a religious and historical acco...
Hermaphroditos, the personage in Greek and Roman myth and iconography possessing both male and femal...
Recent studies regarding multiple sexualities in Greek and Roman Antiquity (or at least practices th...
Eros, God of Love/ God Is Love. In Antiquity Eros (Love) was a God. In the modern age, the message ...
Includes bibliographical references.When dealing with ancient artifacts, scholars often forget that ...
The first large-scale application of feminist theory to the study of Greek and Roman cultures, this ...
This paper investigates the female nude in ancient Greek monumental sculpture based on the Aphrodite...
Current studies on the topic of sexuality in the ancient Greek world tend to favour the active/passi...
This dissertation investigates adultery and the appropriation of ritual space in Classical Greece, f...
What did sex mean to the ancient Romans? In this lavishly illustrated study, John R. Clarke investig...