Eunuchs in antiquity and beyond /
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| Imprint: | London : Classical Press of Wales and Duckworth, 2002. |
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| Description: | 280 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4707706 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Shaun Tougher
- 1. Eunuchs in history and society / Vern L. Bullough
- 2. Eunuchs and the royal harem in Achaemenid Persia (559-331 B.C.) / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- 3. Eunuchizing Agamemnon: Clytemnestra, Agamemnon and maschalismos / Ruth Bardel
- 4. Sacred eunuchism in the cult of the Syrian goddess / J. L. Lightfoot
- 5. Looking for eunuchs: the galli and Attis in Roman art / Shelley Hales
- 6. Eunuchs and gender transformation: Philo's exegesis of the Joseph narrative / Ra'anan Abusch
- 7. Eunuchs and early Christianity / Walter Stevenson
- 8. In or out? Origins of court eunuchs / Shaun Tougher
- 9. 'Eunuchs of light'. Power, imperial ceremonial and positive representations of eunuchs in Byzantium (4th-12th centuries) / Georges Sideris
- 10. Theophylact of Ochrid's In Defence of Eunuchs / Margaret Mullett
- 11. Eunuchs in the late Byzantine empire, c. 1250-1400 / Niels Gaul
- 12. Eunuch power in imperial China / Shih-shan Henry Tsai
- 13. The other castrati / Richard Witt.
