Searching for the Cinaedus in Ancient Rome

Tommaso Gazzarri

ISBN 10: 9004548378 / ISBN 13: 9789004548374

Published by Brill, NL, 2023

About this Item

The cryptic figure of the cinaedus recurs in both the literature and daily life of the Roman world. His afterlife - the equally cryptic catamite - appears to be well and alive as late as Victorian England. But who was the cinaedus? Should we think of a real group of individuals, or is the term but a scare name to keep at bay any form of threating otherness? This book, the first coherent collection of essays on the topic, addresses the matter and fleshes out the complexity of a debate that concerns not only Roman cinaedi but the foundations of our theoretical approach to the study of ancient sexuality.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Searching for the Cinaedus in Ancient Rome
• Publisher: Brill, NL
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004548378
• ISBN 13: 9789004548374
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.75W x 2.29H x 23.88D centimeters 15.75 centimeters width by 2.29 centimeters height by 23.88 centimeters depth
• Weight: 544 grams

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Synopsis

The cryptic figure of the cinaedus recurs in both the literature and daily life of the Roman world. His afterlife – the equally cryptic catamite – appears to be well and alive as late as Victorian England. But who was the cinaedus? Should we think of a real group of individuals, or is the term but a scare name to keep at bay any form of threating otherness? This book, the first coherent collection of essays on the topic, addresses the matter and fleshes out the complexity of a debate that concerns not only Roman cinaedi but the foundations of our theoretical approach to the study of ancient sexuality.

About the Author

Tommaso Gazzarri, Yale University Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Classics at Union College (NY). He publishes on Republican theatre, Seneca, Roman Stoicism, and silver Latin literature.
Jesse Weiner, University of CA, Irvine, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Classics at Hamilton College (NY). He publishes broadly on Latin literature, drama, classical reception studies, and sexuality and gender studies.
Contributors are: Giulia Sissa, Tom Sapsford, John R. Clarke, Tommaso Gazzarri, Judith P. Hallett, Donald Lateiner, Jesse Weiner, Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Kirk Ormand, Barbara K. Gold, Mark Masterson.