Ancient Rape Cultures:

Contents:
Introduction: Elina Pyy
Rape in Greek Culture and Thought
Suzanne Lynch, Rape Culture in Classical Athens
Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, Taking Thratta’s Cherry: The Rape of Enslaved Domestic Laborers in Aristophanes
Brian McPhee, Rape Normalization and Menandrian Apologetics in Callimachus’ Acontius and Cydippe

Rape Narratives in Roman Literature
Simona Martorana, Medusa in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Refracted Rapes
Ben Jerue, An Ancient Greek Custom? Reading the Rape of the Sabine Women in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 2, 30
Ash Finn, Sexual Violence and the So-called ‘Gains of Vengeance’ in Ancient Rome

Imperial Ideology and Colonial Discourses
Eleanor Newman, The Sexual Exploitation of African Males in Roman Material Culture
Antti Lampinen, Boudica’s Daughters: Conquest and Rape in the Ancient Roman Discourse
Francesca Bellei, Donna or domina? Manipulating Italia’s gender from ancient Rome to 19th-century Italian colonialism

Revolutions of Rape Culture in Late Antiquity
Judith Evans-Grubbs, Rape and the Christian Virgin: St. Thekla’s Power against Sexual Assault
Alexander Thies, For the Good of the Empire: A Wedding in Milan, Imperial Succession, and the Creation of Ritualised Rape Culture in the Late Antique Court

Biblical Receptions
Louis Zweig, Listening for Dinah in Abelard’s Planctus and Other Latin Poems
Chris Greenough, Sexual Violence Against Men in the Bible

Ancient rape Cultures on the Contemporary Screen
Briana King, From Antiquity to Screen: Sexual Violence in Greco-Roman Art and its Modern Representations in Caligula (1979) and Spartacus (2010-2013)
Elina Pyy, Ovid’s Pygmalion and Daphne Myths in 21st-Century Body Horror Film: Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In and Lim Woo-Seong’s Vegetarian
List of contributors