Women and Objects continues the work of the 'European Network on Gender Studies in Antiquity'
(EuGeStA) in advancing and refining the study of gender in ancient Mediterranean culture. This
multilingual volume which presents the proceedings of the fifth EuGeStA conference (Basel
October 2017) explores the intersection of gender studies and the burgeoning field of object
theory. Its fourteen contributions engage with a very wide array of ancient authors genres
topics and artefacts from Homer to Sidonius Apollinaris and from everyday objects such as
tools and lamps to magical gems and objets d'art. Grouped around three focal points
('Theorising and Conceptualising Objects' 'Literary Appropriations of Objects' and 'Objects
between the Symbolic Sphere and the Material World') all the papers open new perspectives at
the interface of gender and object studies. Table of Contents HENRIETTE HARICH-SCHWARZBAUER AND
CÉDRIC SCHEIDEGGER LÄMMLE Introduction
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1 Part I: Theorising and Conceptualising Objects GIULIA SISSA th mi s ni? Intentional Objects
and Erotic Materialism in Greek Culture
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15 ALISON SHARROCK The Metamorphosis of Things: Women and Objects in Ovid
................................ 63 FEDERICA BESSONE Oggetti di un discorso amoroso. La
retorica delle cose nell'elegia al femminile delle Heroides
................................................................................... 81 THERESE
FUHRER Das Kleid als tödliche Waffe. Senecas Medea und Clytemestra Ps.-Senecas Deianira
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109 Part II: Literary Appropriation of Objects KATE COOK Weaving Women's Poetry: The Role of
Textiles in Circumventing Gendered Speech Limitations in Greek Tragedy
................................................... 131 FLORENCE KLEIN Objets arrachés femmes
enlevées : Le rapt des vierges et les images du transfert culturel dans les poèmes 64 65 et 66
de Catulle ................................. 149 JACQUELINE FABRE-SERRIS De cultu puellarum.
Modélisation et enjeux de la toilette des femmes selon les élégiaques (Tibulle 3 8 Properce 1
2 Ovide) ......................................... 171 SARAH BLAKE AND ALISON KEITH Women and
Objects in Martial's Epigrams ........................................................... 187
JUDITH HINDERMANN Lucubratio (Night Work) and the Candelabra as a Symbol of Marriage and
Inspiration in Sidonius Apollinaris (Epist. 2 10 5) ..........................................
205 Part III: Objects between the Symbolic Sphere and the Material World FLORENCE GHERCHANOC «
L'attrait du kosmos le désir de parure le plaisir d'être [belle ou] beau » et les dangers de
l'éclat. Mode de circulation des parures nuptiales et des présents conjugaux en Grèce ancienne
........................................................ 225 FABIO SPADINI Female or Male
Desire? Astrological Gems and Procreation ................................ 241 CÉDRIC
SCHEIDEGGER LÄMMLE Discussing Female Statuary. An Archaeology of the Statue of Libertas in
Cicero's De domo sua
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