Transcript Roman Art - Binghamton University

Roman Art
Sexuality and Gender through
Images
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Agenda
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Unfinished Business: What If?...
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Oral Presentation
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From Greece to Rome
Case Study
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Ariana, Jessica, Emin on McGlathery on “Eumolperasty”
Paradigm Shifts?
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Finnis and Nussbaum on Petronius
Suburban Baths, Pompeii, and Comparanda (Casa
Farnesina, Rome)
Oral Presentation
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Warren Cup and Similar Materials
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Unfinished Business: What If?...
Finnis and Nussbaum on Petronius
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“Your response to Petronius?”…
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Finnis, “Law, Morality, and
‘Sexual Orientation’ ”
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Notre Dame Law Review
69.5 (1994) 1049–76
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Nussbaum, “Platonic Love and
Colorado Law: The Relevance of
Ancient Greek Norms to Modern
Sexual Controversies”
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Virginia Law Review 80.7
(1994) 1515–1652
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Finnis/Nussbaum on Petronius…
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Satyricon a critique
of roman tradition
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anti-universalist
quartilla gender
reversal
 enc/giton
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Satirical piece – ABC
homoerotic relations
themselves satirized
homoerotic so
unstable
legacy hunters refute marriage
quartilla gender
reversal
enc/giton
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Oral Presentation
Ariana, Jessica, Emin on
McGlathery on “Eumolperasty”
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Paradigm Shifts?
From Greece to Rome
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Red-figure Attic vase: Pan pursues boy (note herm)
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Agate gemstone, unknown provenance, Greek inscription
(homoerotic couple)
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Delos rhyton, 2nd cent. BCE
(Hellenistic)
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Ortiz Vase, 30 BCE-30 CE
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Women: Classical Athenian v.
Imperial Roman
Tombstone of Hegeso (woman)
Athens ca. 400 BCE
Portrait statue: Roman matrona as Omphale
ca. 200 CE
A gladiator fights his own phallus.
(1st-cent. CE Wind-chime from Pompeii)
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“Woburn Marble” - an eye on the evil eye
(ca. 200 CE)
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Case Study
Suburban Baths, Pompeii, and
Comparanda (Casa Farnesina,
Rome)
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Suburban (extramural) Baths, Pompeii
apodyterium
Apodyterium, South Wall, Frescos
Painted representation of numbered changing boxes, erotic scenes
Later
over-painting
I. Venus pendula
IV. Cunnilingus
VIII. Hydrocoelic poet reading from his works?
Villa Farnesina
Rome, ca. 19 BCE
bedroom (cubiculum) art
compare …
Detail, “Aldobrandini
Wedding Scene”
Venus consoles bride
Warren Cup and Similar Materials
Oral Report
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