Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture

Gender, Desire, and Denial in the Age of Justinian

By:

Steven D Smith

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Greek Culture in the Roman World

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Sexy, scintillating, and sometimes scandalous, Greek epigrams from the age of the Emperor Justinian commemorate the survival of the sensual in a world transformed by Christianity. Around 567 CE, the poet and historian Agathias of Myrina published his Cycle, an anthology of epigrams by contemporary poets who wrote about what mattered to elite men in sixth-century Constantinople: harlots and dancing girls, chariot races in the hippodrome, and the luxuries of the Roman bath. But amid this banquet of worldly delights, ascetic Christianity - pervasive in early Byzantine thought - made sensual pleasure both more complicated and more compelling. In this book, Steven D. Smith explores how this miniature classical genre gave expression to lurid fantasies of domination and submission, constraint and release, and the relationship between masculine and feminine. The volume will appeal to literary scholars and historians interested in Greek poetry, Late Antiquity, Byzantine studies, Early Christianity, gender, and sexuality.

Author Biography:

Steven D. Smith is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University, New York. His publications include Greek Identity and the Athenian Past in Chariton: The Romance of Empire (2007) and Man and Animal in Severan Rome: The Literary Imagination of Claudius Aelianus (Cambridge, 2014).

Release date NZ

August 19th, 2021

Author

Steven D Smith

Series

Greek Culture in the Roman World

Pages

289

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Maps; 7 Halftones, black and white

Dimensions

150x230x15

ISBN-13

9781108727167

Product ID

35207391

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