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Eunuchs in antiquity and beyond
- Title
- Eunuchs in antiquity and beyond / editor, Shaun Tougher ; contributors, Raʼanan Abusch ... [et al.].
- Format
- Book
- Published
- London : Classical Press of Wales and Duckworth ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book [distributor in USA], 2002.
- Description
- xiii, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Other contributors
- Tougher, Shaun. Abusch, Raʼanan.
- Spine title
- Eunuchs in antiquity & beyond
- Other titles
- Victor Cheney Collection
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Eunuchs in history and society / Vern L. Bullough
- Eunuchs and the royal harem in Achaemenid Persia (559-331 BC) / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Eunuchizing Agamemnon : Clytemnestra, Agamemnon and maschalismos / Ruth Bardel
- Sacred eunuchism in the cult of the Syrian goddess / J.L. Lightfoot
- Looking for eunuchs : the galli and Attis in Roman art / Shelley Hales
- Eunuchs and gender transformation : Philo's exegesis of the Joseph narrative / Raʼanan Abusch
- Eunuchs and early Christianity / Walter Stevenson
- In or out? Origins of court eunuchs / Shaun Tougher
- 'Eunuchs of light' : power, imperial ceremonial and positive representations of eunuchs in Byzantium (4th-12th centuries) / George Sideris
- Theophylact of Ochrid's In defence of eunuchs / Margaret Mullett
- Eunuchs in the late Byzantine empire, c. 1250-1400 / Niels Gaul
- Eunuch power in imperial China / Shih-shan Henry Tsai
- Other castrati / Richard Witt.
- Kinsey subjects
- Eunuchs--Antiquity. Castrati.
- ISBN
- 0715631292