Women and Objects continues the work of the ‘European Network on Gender Studies in Antiquity’ (EuGeStA) in advancing and refining the study of gender in ancient Mediterranean culture. This multilingual volume, which presents the proceedings of the fifth EuGeStA conference (Basel, October 2017), explores the intersection of gender studies and the burgeoning field of object theory. Its fourteen contributions engage with a very wide array of ancient authors, genres, topics and artefacts, from Homer to Sidonius Apollinaris and from everyday objects such as tools and lamps to magical gems and objets d’art. Grouped around three focal points (‘Theorising and Conceptualising Objects’, ‘Literary Appropriations of Objects’ and ‘Objects between the Symbolic Sphere and the Material World’), all the papers open new perspectives at the interface of gender and object studies.



Table of Contents

HENRIETTE HARICH-SCHWARZBAUER AND CÉDRIC SCHEIDEGGER LÄMMLE
Introduction ............................................................................................................ 1

Part I: Theorising and Conceptualising Objects

GIULIA SISSA
Τί θαυμαστόν? Intentional Objects and Erotic Materialism
in Greek Culture .................................................................................................... 15

ALISON SHARROCK
The Metamorphosis of Things: Women and Objects in Ovid ................................ 63

FEDERICA BESSONE
Oggetti di un discorso amoroso. La retorica delle cose nell’elegia
al femminile delle Heroides ................................................................................... 81

THERESE FUHRER
Das Kleid als tödliche Waffe. Senecas Medea und Clytemestra,
Ps.-Senecas Deianira .............................................................................................. 109

Part II: Literary Appropriation of Objects

KATE COOK
Weaving Women’s Poetry: The Role of Textiles in Circumventing
Gendered Speech Limitations in Greek Tragedy ................................................... 131

FLORENCE KLEIN
Objets arrachés / femmes enlevées : Le rapt des vierges et les images
du transfert culturel dans les poèmes 64, 65 et 66 de Catulle ................................. 149

JACQUELINE FABRE-SERRIS
De cultu puellarum. Modélisation et enjeux de la toilette des femmes
selon les élégiaques (Tibulle 3,8, Properce 1,2, Ovide) ......................................... 171

SARAH BLAKE AND ALISON KEITH
Women and Objects in Martial’s Epigrams ........................................................... 187

JUDITH HINDERMANN
Lucubratio (Night Work) and the Candelabra as a Symbol of Marriage
and Inspiration in Sidonius Apollinaris (Epist. 2,10,5) .......................................... 205

Part III: Objects between the Symbolic Sphere and the Material World

FLORENCE GHERCHANOC
« L’attrait du kosmos, le désir de parure, le plaisir d’être [belle ou] beau »
et les dangers de l’éclat. Mode de circulation des parures nuptiales
et des présents conjugaux en Grèce ancienne ........................................................ 225

FABIO SPADINI
Female or Male Desire? Astrological Gems and Procreation ................................ 241

CÉDRIC SCHEIDEGGER LÄMMLE
Discussing Female Statuary. An Archaeology of the Statue of Libertas
in Cicero’s De domo sua ........................................................................................ 265

JUDITH P. HALLETT AND LAURI DABBIERI
Those Obscure Objects of Desire: Material Evidence and
Literary Expression by Elite Roman Women ......................................................... 293

ANNE-SOPHIE MEYER UND GREGOR UTZ
Objekte der Reflexion:
Genderorientierte Überlegungen zu römischen Spiegeln .... 307

List of Contributors ................................................................................................ 343

Index of Passages Discussed .................................................................................. 347