To browse Academia. This bibliography compiles 11, entries focused on the roles and representations of 'children' and 'women' in the ancient Greek and Roman world. It provides a comprehensive reference for researchers in classical studies, detailing varied perspectives across multiple subfields, including sociology, literature, religion, and gender studies, revealing how these two demographics were perceived and treated throughout history.
Although Michel Foucault never mentions the objects explicitly, his work on ancient Greek sexuality depends in critical aspects on evidence from sex scenes on ancient Greek pottery.
The significance of the images comes to the fore in his argument concerning the radical difference of the gender-blind ethics of desire in Greek antiquity from the gender-based norms of modernity.
In the overarching narrative of his multi-volume genealogy of modern sexuality, the alterity of Greece underlines his broader contention about the discursive basis of sexual experience. This article confronts the historiographical biases that led Foucault to disregard the material nature of his sources and explores the implications this silence spelled for his successors.
Its argument revolves around the disciplinary instruments which scholars employ to contain three-dimensional objects within the bounds of verbal explanation. Two-dimensional copies, in particular, enable historians to isolate vase images from their contexts of consumption and redeploy them strategically to support unrelated arguments.
