Eunuchs in Antiquity and BeyondShaun Tougher Classical Press of Wales, 31 dec 2002 - 269 pagina's Eunuchism was a subject which both intrigued and embarrassed the ancient world. The special virtue attributed to the castrated male at court, of undistracted loyalty to his ruler, aided the promotion of numerous eunuchs to positions of great power. A literary discourse developed, reviling and sometimes defending the eminence of these 'half-men'. Here, thirteen new studies from an international cast explore how eunuchs were perceived, and also reconstruct the realities of eunuchs' lives in Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Eastern culture. |
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2 Eunuchs and the royal harem in Achaemenid Persia 559331 BC | 19 |
Clytemnestra Agamemnon and maschalismos | 51 |
4 Sacred eunuchism in the cult of the Syrian goddess | 71 |
the galli and Attis in Roman art | 87 |
Philos exegesis of the Joseph narrative | 103 |
7 Eunuchs and early Christianity | 123 |
8 In or out? Origins of court eunuchs | 143 |
9 Eunuchs of light Power imperial ceremonial and positive representations of eunuchs in Byzantium 4th12th centuries | 161 |
10 Theophylact of Ochrids In Defence of Eunuchs | 177 |
11 Eunuchs in the late Byzantine empire c 12501400 | 199 |
12 Eunuch power in imperial China | 221 |
13 The other castrati | 235 |
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