A Coalition of Queer Classicists and Allies
Legalize it: Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Law
LCC Panel, 2021 Annual Meeting of the SCS in Chicago/Zoom!
Organizers: Naomi Campa, Kenyon College, and Tommaso Gazzarri, Union College (original call for papers)
Kostas Kapparis (University of Florida), Ancient Laws, Modern Prejudices: Athenian Laws Related to Male Prostitution
Cassandra Tran (McMaster University), A Case of Cross-Dressing and Rape in Terrence's Eunuchus
Simona Martorana (Durham University), Elegize It: Ovid's Heroides, Augustan Legislation and the 'Law of the Mothers'
Niek Janssen (Yale University), Crimes Against Fate: Crossdressing, Parody, and Law in Minor Declamations 282 and Statius' Achilleid
Mark Masterson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), Reading and Contextualizing 'Aselgeia' in Tenth-Century Byzantine Law