Gender And Sexuality In The Ancient World

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Antinous

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-beloved companion of Emperor Hadrian.
-mysteriously drowned in the Nile, possibly murder.
-Hadrian founded a city named Antinoöpolis on the spot where he died and pronounced him a god.

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Philomela

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-Sister of Procne, Raped by Tereus.
-Tereus cuts her tongue out so she can't tell her tale.
-She wove a tale tell account of the rape

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Arachne

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-Center of a community of women
-A fantastic artist whom women would come to see from all over.
-Wove a piece telling the tale of women raped by gods and turned into beasts.
-was murdered, but the murder was masked as a suicide by hanging.

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Lucretia

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-Men went to spy on their wives to see who had the best wife.
-They find all their wives drinking and having parties except Lucretia.
-Lucretia is then raped by the kings son and after telling her husband she takes her life so that she cannot be used as an example of adultery after she tells them to take revenge.

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Verginia

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-Citizen girl who is desired by the chief decemvir, Appius Claudius. -He claims her as a slave so that he can have his way with her.
-Appius grants her father a moment to speak with her and her nurse. Her father kills her to protect her virtue

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Sulpicia

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-Female Poet who addressed questions of gender under the disguise of a love affair.
-Her poems use this love affair disguise so she can question the conventions that define women's place.

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Lesbia

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-Used by Catullus.
-a pseudonym, recalling Sappho,to conceal the name of the woman he desired.

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Ovid's Metamorphoses

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-writing that features violence and deformation of the female body.
-features Arachne and her weaving contest with Athena.

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Pliny's Natural History

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-A text that featured cures to many illnesses.
-Talks about the healing powers of the female body, an example is wearing a bra on ones head to cure a headache.