Brill's Companion to Episodes of 'Heroic' Rape/Abduction in Classical Antiquity and Their Reception

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50576-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception

Sexual violence is one of the oldest and most difficult problems of humankind. Many of the “love stories” in Classical Greek and Roman Myth are tales of rape, a fact that is often casually glossed over in both popular and scholarly treatments of these narratives. Through a careful selection of stories, this book provides a deep exploration of rape in Classical Myth as well as in the works of art and literature that have responded to it through the millennia. The volume offers an essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand sexual violence from different perspectives and through an interdisciplinary approach, which includes Trauma Theory and Evolutionary Psychology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lauriola, Rosanna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

1 Introduction

1 Why Rape? A Prefatory Note

2 Rape/Abduction: What’s in a Name?

3 Patriarchy and ‘Rape Culture’: The Pervasiveness and the Overlooking of Rape in Classical Antiquity

4 The Perspectives, Objectives, and Methodology of This Study: For an Operational Definition of Rape

5 Mapping Out This Study

2 Episodes of ‘Heroic’ Rape/Abduction in Classical Antiquity and Their Reception

1 Zeus, the “Master Rapist”: A Selection of His ‘Many Rapes’

3 Conclusion

Bibliography

Index Locorum

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Works of Art

Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Rosanna Lauriola (Ph.D. Greek and Latin Philology, University of Firenze, Italy) is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Randolph Macon College (Virginia, USA). She has published many papers, book chapters, and some books on a variety of authors and topics of Greek literature and its reception, including Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Euripides (2015) and Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Sophocles (2017).