Frontmatter Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Queering Classics PART I. Gender Construction CHAPTER 1. Gender Diversity in Classical Greek Thought CHAPTER 2. Blending Bodies in Classical Greek Medicine CHAPTER 3. Birth by Hammer: Pandora and the Construction of Bodies CHAPTER 4. Life after Transition: Spontaneous Sex Change and Its Aftermath in Ancient Literature PART II. Gender Fluidity CHAPTER 5. Neutrumque et Utrumque Videntur: Reappraising the Gender Role(s) of Hermaphroditus in Ancient Art CHAPTER 6. Intersex and Intertext: Ovid’s Hermaphroditus and the Early Universe CHAPTER 7. Que(e)r(y)ing Iphis’ Transformation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses CHAPTER 8. Ruling in Purple ... and Wearing Make-up: Gendered Adventures of Emperor Elagabalus as seen by Cassius Dio and Herodian PART III. Transgender Identity CHAPTER 9. Allegorical Bodies: (Trans)gendering Virtus in Statius’ Thebaid 10 and Silius Ital Frontmatter Preface Contents Original Titles and Places of Publication of the Essays Collected in This Volume Part I: Visualizing the Known and the Unknown: Representations and Ideas of the World Chapter 1 The World in Maps: Change and Continuity in the Middle Ages Chapter 2 Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts Chapter 3 Amazons in Medieval World Maps Chapter 4 From the Journey to the Map and Back: Creative Processes and Cultural Practices Part II: Symbolic, Narrative, and Spiritual Functions of Cartography: Europe and the Holy Land Chapter 5 Graphic Form and Significance: Europe in the World Maps of Beatus of Liébana and Ranulf Higden Chapter 6 Mapping Narratives: Jerusalem in Medieval Mapped Spaces Chapter 7 Travel Accounts, Maps, and Diagrams: Burchard of Mount Sion and the Holy Land Part III: Between the Old and the New World: Maps as Means of Power Chapter 8 New Maps for New Worlds? Cartographic Practices of Exploration Chapter 9 Battista Agnese’s Portolan Atlases Chapter 10 Cartography as Politics: The Topographic Land Survey in Hesse around 1600 Index of Toponyms and Locations Index of Historical and Mythical Figures and Peoples Index of Modern Authors |