Sexual Ambivalence
Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
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Product details:
- Publisher University of California Press
- Date of Publication 28 March 2002
- ISBN 9780520231481
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages209 pages
- Size 219x142x19 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English 0
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This fascinating book collects and translates most of the extant written Graeco-Roman material on human beings, divinities, animals, and other creatures who were said to have been both female and male. Luc Brisson provides a commentary that situates this rich source material within its historical and intellectual contexts. These selections--from mythological, philosophical, historical, and anecdotal sources--describe cases of either simultaneous dual sexuality, as in androgyny and in hermaphroditism, or successive dual sexuality, as in the case of Tiresias (the blind Theban prophet), which are found through the whole span of Graeco-Roman antiquity. Sexual Ambivalence is an invaluable sourcebook that gathers this suggestive, yet hard to find, material in one convenient place.
This book presents some very obscure but wonderfully strange material. There is the ghost story about a father who returns from the dead to devour his dual-sexed son in the public square, leaving behind only the head, which proceeds to deliver a prophecy from its position on the ground. In addition to including such familiar sources as the myths of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus as told in Ovid's Metamorphoses and Aristophanes' myth of the origins of the sexes and sexuality in Plato's Symposium, Brisson also discusses cosmogonic mythology in Hesiodic poetry, the Orphic Rhapsodies, Gnosticism, the Hermetic Corpus, and the so-called Chaldean Oracles. He presents the manifold variants of the myth of Tiresias, as well as many other sources.
Brisson quotes this material at length and discusses its significance in Graeco-Roman myth and philosophy. These ancient stories open a window onto a world without the sexual oppositions of male and female, a paradise of unity and self-containment, as well as onto the peculiar world of go-betweens like the prophet Tiresias. They deepen our awareness of the extent to which the polarity of sexuality colors our entire perception of the world, as it did in antiquity, and as it does for us now. This provocative material is profoundly relevant to our thinking today.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface to the English Edition
Introduction
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
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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