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In The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens, Kate Gilhuly explores the relationship between the prostitute, the wife, and the ritual performer in Athenian literature. She suggests that these three roles formed a symbolic continuum that served as an alternative to a binary conception of gender in classical Athens and provided a framework for assessing both masculine and feminine civic behavior. Grounded in close readings of four texts, "Against Neaira," Plato's Symposium, Xenopho
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kate Gilhuly
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (NY)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781281982537
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Mathematics
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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