Ομιλία της Καθηγήτριας Alison Glazebrook (Brock University, Canada) με θέμα: "Unleashing Desire in Lysias 3 and 4"

Τρίτη 16 Οκτωβρίου 2018, στις 12.00, στην αίθουσα 826 της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής

ΠΡΟΣΚΛΗΣΗ

Την Τρίτη 16 Οκτωβρίου 2018, ώρα 12.00,

στην αίθουσα 826 της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής

θα πραγματοποιηθεί στο πλαίσιο των «Επιστημονικών Συναντήσεων»

του Τομέα Κλασικής Φιλολογίας η ομιλία

της Professor Allison Glazebrook, Brock University (Canada),

με θέμα:

Unleashing Desire in Lysias 3 and 4

Σας προσκαλούμε να παραστείτε.

 

Η Διευθύντρια του Τομέα Κλασικής Φιλολογίας

Σοφία Παπαϊωάννου

Συντονίστριες

Κατερίνα Καρβούνη kcarvounis@phil.uoa.gr 210-7277613

Σοφία Παπαϊωάννου spapaioan@phil.uoa.gr 210-7277380

UNLEASHING DESIRE IN LYSIAS 3 AND 4

PROFESSOR ALLISON GLAZEBROOK BROCK UNIVERSITY (CANADA)

ABSTRACT

Lysias 3 and 4 originate in disputes over sex slaves that culminated in physical altercations resulting in a charge of trauma ek pronoias (premeditated wounding) against which the speakers defend themselves. Taken together, the speeches offer an opportunity to consider the intersectionality of gender, slavery, and sexual labour. With these two speeches, we can explore social tensions surrounding male versus female sexual labour as well as anxiety over male desire. This paper examines the uses of desire in each speech (epithumia and duserōs respectively) to amplify the character of the disputants (both speaker and opponent) and what the characters of the sex slaves, their treatment, and the relationships with them, reveal about the tensions and anxieties surrounding sexual desire in classical Athens more generally. The paper is part of a larger project on the representation and significance of sexual labour in the Attic Orators.

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