TransAntiquity

Domitilla Campanile (PhD 1992) is Associate Professor of Roman History at the University of Pisa, Italy. Filippo Carlà-Uhink is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter, UK. After studying in Turin and Udine, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and as Assistant Professor for Cultural History of Antiquity at the University of Mainz, Germany. Margherita Facella is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Pisa, Italy. She was Visiting Associate Professor at Northwestern University, USA, and a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Münster, Germany.

Domitilla Campanile, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, and Margherita Facella, Preface



Part 1: Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient Social and Political Space










Filippo Carlà-Uhink, ‘Between the Human and the Divine’: Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Graeco-Roman World







Andrea Raggi, Cross-Dressing in Rome between Norm and Practice







Domitilla Campanile, The Patrician, the General and the Emperor in Women’s Clothes. Examples of Cross-Dressing in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome







Martijn Icks, Cross-Dressers in Control. Transvestism, Power and the Balance between the Sexes in the Literary Discourse of the Roman Empire






Part 2: Ancient Transgender Dynamics and the Sacred Sphere






Valerio Simini, Cross-Dressing and the Sexual Symbolism of the Divine Sphere in Pharaonic Egypt







Fiorella La Guardia, Aspects of Transvestism in Greek Myths and Rituals







Margherita Facella, Beyond Ritual: Cross-Dressing between Greece and the Orient







Chiara O. Tommasi, Cross-Dressing as Discourse and Symbol in Late Antique Religion and Literature






Part 3: Transgender as Subversive Literary Discourse






Enrico Medda, "O Saffron Robe, to what Pass have you brought me!" Cross-Dressing and Theatrical Illusion in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae







Christian Stoffel, Declaiming and (Cross-)Dressing: Remixing Roman Declamation and its Metaphorology







Bobby Xinyue, Imperatrix and bellatrix: Cicero’s Clodia and Vergil’s Camilla






Part 4: Transgender Myth






Fabio Guidetti, The Hero’s White Hands. The Early History of the Myth of Achilles on Scyros







Alexandra Eppinger, Hercules cinaedus? The Effeminate Hero in Chri