Soul, Body, and Gender in Late Antiquity

Stanimir Panayotov is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the School of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen, Russia. Most recently, he is a co-editor of Black Metal Rainbows (PM Press, 2023), and editor of O–Zone: An Ecology of Objects (Punctum Books, forthcoming 2024). Andra Jugănaru (PhD in Medieval Studies) is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of History, University of Bucharest, Romania. Her current research interests involve the use of network theory in the research of late antique epistolography, and her other research interests are late antique monasticism and hagiography. Anastasia Theologou is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Medieval Studies in the Central European University, Vienna, Austria, with a thesis on Plotinus and Sympatheia. Her research interests focus on ancient cosmology, psychology, and epistemology, and the ancient philosophical tradition in Medieval philosophy. István Perczel is Professor in the Department of Medieval Studies at Central European University, Vienna, Austria. He has extensively worked on late antique and patristic philosophy. One of his research projects is on Christian Platonism and Byzantine theology, and he has worked on Syriac Christianity.

Introduction STANIMIR PANAYOTOV, ANDRA JUGĂNARU, ANASTASIA THEOLOGOU AND ISTVÁN PERCZEL; I From India 1. Celibacy, Sexuality, and Monasticism in Early South Asia: A Personal Dialogue with the Past UMA CHAKRAVARTI; II Through the Late Antique Mediterranean II.1 Gender and the Self in Greek Philosophy 2. Light, Knowledge, Incorporeality, and the Feminine in Parmenides EMESE MOGYORÓDI; 3 Plotinus: Seeing the Self in Unity ANASTASIA THEOLOGOU; 4. Sexless Henology, or, Is Plotinus’ One Neutral to Sex and Gender? STANIMIR PANAYOTOV; 5 The Two Aphrodites: Plotinus, Proclus, and the Sublimation of Bodily Desires CHIARA MILITELLO; 6 In/violability as Evidence in Heliodorus NATHALIE SCHULER; II.2 Gender, The Body, and Christian Theology; 7 Male and Female in the Protevangelium Jacobi GYÖRGY GERÉBY; 8 Identical, But Not Alike: The Resurrection of the Body According to Amphilochius of Iconium István ISTVÁN PÁSZTORI-KUPÁN; 9 Fatherhood and Sonship: The Use of Concepts of Reproduction and Gendered Perspectives in the Ninth-Century Arabic Christian Controversy ORSOLYA VARSÁNYI; II.3 Augustine on Soul, Body, and Sexuality; 10 Man, Woman, and Serpent as the Inner State of One Person: Anthropology Based on the Interpretation of Genesis 3 in Didymus the Blind and Augustine of Hippo PETER D. STEIGER AND MAKIKO SATO; 11 From Matter to History: Towards a Disembodied Interpretation of Human Sexuality in Augustine ISABELLE KOCH; 12 Augustine on the Uniqueness of Sexual Desire Among the Passions and on the Ambivalent Character of Sexual Life Within a Christian Marriage GÁBOR KENDEFFY; II.4 Bodily Transformations in Hagiography and Magic; 13 Shame in the Development of Christian Identity in the Acts of the Christian Martyrs ANA-MARIA RĂDUCAN; 14 Historicizing Trans Saints: Gender, Sexuality, and Agency in the Life of Pelagia MARIANA BODNARUK; 15 The Im/materiality of the Will?: The Life of Dositheus and Delicia Children in Late Antiquity JONATHAN CAHANA-BLUM; 16 Menopause and Agency in Late Antiquity: A Case for Magical Gems JORDAN POOLE; 17 From the Depths of Sin to the Highness of Holiness: The Female Body as Witness of the Journey to Sanctity in the Life of Mary the Egyptian ANDRA JUGĂNARU; II.5 Virility in Roman Rhetoric; 18 “Neglegentissimus Vernula”: Manliness and Imperial Legitimation in Pacatus’ Panegyric in Praise of the Emperor Theodosius’s Civil War Victory SUSANNA ELM; 19 From Inanity to Ideology: The Allurements of Narrative in Martianus Capella’s De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii DAVID ROLLO; III. To the Ancient Mediterranean and India; 20 Solomon’s Song of Songs and Adi Shankara’s Soundarya Lahari: A Comparison SUSAN VISVANATHAN; IV APPENDIX; Marianne Sághy: Bibliography ANDRA JUGĂNARU