Eunuchs in antiquity and beyond

Weitere Verfasser: Tougher, Shaun
Boustan, Ra'anan S., 1971-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London : The Classical Press of Wales ; Duckworth, 2002.
Umfang/Format: xiii, 269 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 0715631292
978-0-7156-3129-4
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Inhalte/Bestandteile: 7 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Eunuchs in history and society / Vern L. Bullough - Eunuchs and the royal harem in Achaemenid Persia (559-331 BC) / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones - Eunuchizing Agamemnon : Clytemnestra, Agamemnon and maschalismos / Ruth Bardel - Sacred euchnuchism in the cult of the Syrian goddess / J. L. Lightfoot - Looking for eunuchs : the galli and Attis in Roman art / Shelley Hales - Eunuchs and gender transformation : Philo's exegesis of the Joseph narrative / Ra'anan Abusch - Eunuchs and early Christianity / Walter Stevenson - In or out? Origins of court eunuchs / Shaun Tougher - 'Eunuchs of light' : power, imperial ceremonial and positive representations of eunuchs in Byzantium (4th-12th centuries) / Georges Sidéris - Theophylact of Ochrid's In Defence of Eunuchs / Margaret Mullett - Eunuchs in the late Byzantine empire, c. 1250-1400 / Niels Gaul - Eunuch power in imperial China / Shih-shan Henry Tsai - The other castrati / Richard Witt.