Same Old or New Old? Images of Sex and Gender in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean.

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Same Old or New Old? Images of Sex and Gender in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean

Nussbaum on evidence forcing “us to confront the fact that much of what we consider necessary and natural in our own practices is actually local and nonuniversal…” (1518–1519) Finnis on “influential [ancient] philosophical writers … who taught that homosexual conduct is … shameful [and misogynistic]” (1061)

Agenda Project Goat Stable or Dynamic? Imperial Roman Sex-Gender Project Bath Sexual Images in Suburban Baths, Pompeii Ancient Sexuality and Gender3

Project Goat Stable or Dynamic? Imperial Roman Sex- Gender

Lesbos Thessaly Carthage Naples, Pompeii, Herculaneum Oea Maduara

1,000 B.C. 1,000 A.D. Greece, 550: BCE–CE 200 Rome, 200 BCE–125 CE Trojan War ca. 1,200 BCE Rome founded 753 BCE Athenian democracy 400s– 300s B.C. Roman Republic 510–27 BCE Periods covered in course When… Roman Empire 27 BCE–CE 475

Things to Think About… Ideological stability, dynamism Sexual/gender symmetry, asymmetry Affective… connection, disconnect Viewer and… Object, owner Ancient Sexuality and Gender7

Red-figure Attic vase: Pan pursues boy (note herm)

hē numphē kalē, “The bride is beautiful.” Timodēmos kalos, “Timodemos is handsome.” Attic Red Figure alabastron, ca. 465 BCE

Demure rejection (?). Greek: Paestum, Italy, ca. 450 BCE

Agate gemstone, unknown provenance, Greek inscription (homoerotic couple)

Delos rhyton, 2nd cent. BCE (Hellenistic)

Ortiz Vase, 30 BCE-30 CE

Portrait statue: Roman matrona as Omphale ca. 200 CE, Vatican, Rome

Arretine Ware (30 BCE-30 CE) mass-produced ceramics…

Pan and Goat, Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum

Project Bath Sexual Images in Suburban Baths, Pompeii

Hic habitat felicitas (Archaeological Museum, Naples)

A gladiator fights his own phallus. (1st-cent. CE Wind-chime from Pompeii) “Woburn Marble” - an eye on the evil eye (ca. 200 CE)

Suburban (extramural) Baths, Pompeii

apodyterium

Painted representation of numbered changing boxes, erotic scenes Apodyterium, South Wall, Frescos

I. Venus pendula Later over-painting

IV. Cunnilingus

VIII. Hydrocoelic poet reading from his works?

Suburban Baths – Discussion Ancient Sexuality and Gender31