Among women : from the homosocial to the homoerotic in the ancient world / edited by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger.

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002.

xv, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

1st ed.

Imag(in)ing a women's world in Bronze Age Greece: the frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera / Paul Rebak -- Aphrodite garlanded: Erôs and poetic creativity in Sappho and Nossis / Marilyn B. Skinner -- Subjects, objects, and erotic symmetry in Sappho's fragments / Ellen Greene -- Excavating women's homoeroticism in ancient Greece: the evidence from Attic vase painting / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz -- Women in relief: "double consciousness" in classical Attic tombstones / John G. Younger -- Glimpses through a window: an approach to Roman female homoeroticism through art historical and literary evidence / Lisa Auanger -- Ovid's Iphis and Ianthe: when girls won't be girls / Diane T. Pintabone -- Lucian's "Leaena and Clonarium": voyeurism or a challenge to assumptions? / Shelley P. Haley -- "Friendship and physical desire": the discourse of female homoeroticism in fifth-century C.E. Egypt / Terry G. Wilfong.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-371) and index.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2006. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.