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
