Sex and the Ancient City Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes Edited by Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos Associate Editors Stavros Frangoulidis · Fausto Montana · Lara Pagani Serena Perrone · Evina Sistakou · Christos Tsagalis Scientific Committee Alberto Bernabé · Margarethe Billerbeck Claude Calame · Kathleen Coleman · Jonas Grethlein Philip R. Hardie · Stephen J. Harrison · Stephen Hinds Richard Hunter · Giuseppe Mastromarco Gregory Nagy · Theodore D. Papanghelis Giusto Picone · Alessandro Schiesaro Tim Whitmarsh · Bernhard Zimmermann Volume 126 Sex and the Ancient City Sex and Sexual Practices in Greco-Roman Antiquity Edited by Andreas Serafim, George Kazantzidis and Kyriakos Demetriou ISBN 978-3-11-069577-9 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-069579-3 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-069588-5 ISSN 1868-4785 Library of Congress Control Number: 2022932188 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Editorial Office: Alessia Ferreccio and Katerina Zianna Logo: Christopher Schneider, Laufen Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck www.degruyter.com Acknowledgements The editors would like to acknowledge a number of individuals and institutions whose help and support have been invaluable in the conception and completion of this volume. We would like to thank the two editors of Trends in Classics at De Gruyter, Professors Antonios Rengakos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/ Member of the Academy of Athens) and Franco Montanari (University of Geno- va), for having believed in the significance of this volume and supported its preparation and publication wholeheartedly. Andreas Serafim would like to thank the Research Centre for Greek and Lat- in Literature of the Academy of Athens for providing excellent research facilities that make the completion of this volume possible; and Millie Gall for reading and commenting on the Introduction and other chapters within the volume. The Department of Social and Political Science at the University of Cyprus is also to be thanked for generously covering the expenses of the conference “Sex and the Ancient City: Aspects of Sexual Intercourse in Greco-Roman Antiquity” (11–13 June 2019), which allowed the idea of this volume to germinate and grow. Above all, the editors would like to thank the contributors: we have been fortunate to work alongside, share the knowledge and admire the professional- ism of the contributors from the initial exchange of ideas to the preparation of the final full manuscript of the volume. We are sure that they will forgive us for having bombarded them with countless questions and requests which placed a huge demand on their time. The publication of the volume at hand reimburses us all for our labours. Abbreviations throughout this volume follow those in L’Année philologique or the Oxford Classical Dictionary. A certain level of formatting standardisation has been imposed to ensure consistency across the volume, but individual sty- listic distinctiveness has been respected. The volume is intended for the special- ist scholars and graduate students of gender/sex studies both within the con- fines of Classics and beyond. All long quotations of Greek and Latin are accompanied by English translation. Andreas Serafim, George Kazantzidis and Kyriakos Demetriou Athens, Patras and Nicosia, February 2022 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110695793-202 Contents Acknowledgements  V List of Figures  XI Andreas Serafim, George Kazantzidis and Kyriakos Demetriou Sex, Sexuality, Sexual Intercourse and Gender: The Terms and Contexts of the Volume  1 Part I: Aspects of Homoeroticism Konstantinos Kapparis Dover’s “Pseudo-sexuality” and the Athenian Laws on Male Prostitutes in Politics  21 Thomas K. Hubbard Group Sex, Exhibitionism/Voyeurism and Male Homosociality  43 Andreas Serafim Making the Body Speak: The (Homo)Sexual Dimensions of Sneezing in Ancient Greek Literature  71 Manolis Spanakis “Fell in Love with an Anus”: Sexual Fantasies for Young Male Bodies and the Pederastic Gaze in Rhianus’ Epigrams  89 Andreas Fountoulakis Silencing Female Intimacies: Sexual Practices, Silence and Cultural Assumptions in Lucian, Dial. Meretr. 5  111 Part II: Sex and Medicine Chiara Thumiger Clitoridectomy in Ancient Greco-Roman Medicine and the Definition of Sexual Intercourse  143 George Kazantzidis Sex and Epilepsy: Seizures and Fluids in Greek Medical Imagination  173 VIII  Contents Part III: The Use and Abuse of Sex Objects Bartłomiej Bednarek Some Dirty Thoughts about Chairs and Stools: Iconography of Erotic Foreplay  195 Emma Stafford Olive Oil, Dildos and Sandals: Greek Sex Toys Reassessed  221 Regina Höschele Statues as Sex Objects  245 Charilaos N. Michalopoulos Having Sex with Statues: Some Cases of Agalmatophilia in Latin Poetry  263 Part IV: Sexual Liminality Jeremy McInerney Hephaistos Among the Satyrs: Semen, Ejaculation and Autochthony in Greek Culture  287 José Malheiro Magalhães Human-animal Sex in Ancient Greece  307 Catalina Popescu The Womb Inside the Male Member: A Lucianic Twist  323 Part V: Sex and Disgust Gabriel Evangelou Sex and Disgust in Martial’s Epigrams  353 Part VI: The Scripts of Sexuality: Drama, Novel, Papyri and Later Texts Nikos Manousakis To Voice the Physical: Sex and the Soil in Aeschylus  379 Contents  IX Dimitrios Kanellakis Seminal Figures: Aristophanes and the Tradition of Sexual Imagery  425 Ioannis M. Konstantakos The Maiden who Knew Nothing about Sex: A Scabrous Theme in Novella and Comedy  445 Amphilochios Papathomas and Aikaterini Koroli Sex and Abuse in Unhappy Marriages in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus: The Case of Two Women’s Narratives Preserved on Papyrus  471 Rosalia Hatzilambrou “Asexuality” in the Greek Papyrus Letters  487 Stephanos Efthymiadis and Charis Messis From Plato’s Symposium to Methodius’ and Late Antique Hagiography: “Female” Readings of Male Sexuality  509 Notes on Editors and Contributors  529 Index Locorum  531 General Index  535