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6.5 X 11 Double Line.P65 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-12360-0 - Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome Caroline Vout Index More information Index Abradatas 215, 220 Androclus 111, 116 Achilles, Homeric hero 66, 85, 118, 227 Antinoopolis 55, 56, 57, 62, 70 and the dedication of his hair 189 Antinous (see also Hadrian) 18, 21, 150, 199, Achilles, ‘pupil’ of Herodes Atticus 85 241 Achilles Tatius 30, 66 and the authenticity of his images 89–95 Acta Alexandrinorum (Acts of the Pagan and the Christian polemicists 26, 60–1, Martyrs) 141 117 Acta Arualium (Acts of the Arval Brethren) 12, and empathy 26, 106–8 114, 117 and eroticism 10, 26, 29 Actaeon 2, 230 and the ‘imperial cult’ 62–3 adolescens (a boy who has reached maturity) and the local 108–11, 116–17 196 and ownership 103–6 Adonis 110–11 as castrate 139–40 Adrastus, Homeric hero 60 as emblematic of Hadrian’s philhellenism Adrastus, a doomed Phrygian 60, 119 10, 67–8 adultery (see also sex and stuprum) 4, 241 as gay icon 53, 72 and masculinity 18 as god 12–13, 26, 55, 61, 108, 111, laws regarding 3, 174 113–21 Aelius, Lucius 114 as image (see also sculptures of) 10–12, 24, Aeneas 30, 32 27, 55, 61–3 aesthetics 29, 73, 118 as Osiris 58–9, 69–71, 118 and Latin poetry 168 as slave 22, 67 Afer 157 biography of 10, 54–61, 150 glmata (statues, often in honour of a god) coins of 62, 89, 111, 116 55, 62 commemoration of 53, 69–71, 87–9, Agrippa 183 92 Agrippina, mother of Nero 36 identification of 74–88 Ahl, Frederick 170, 173, 178 obelisk of 69, 75, 92, 111, 116, 117, Alcestis 10 151 Alcibiades 149, 155 sacrifice of 55, 56, 111 Alexander the Great 25, 26, 30 sacrifice to 12 and his eunuch 211 sculptures of 27, 53, 56, 74–113, 150 and Hephaestion 117–18 Albani relief 74, 93 and the hunt 59 ‘Braschi Antinous’ 81, 100 and Zeus Ammon 84, 118 bust of Antinous from Syria 75 images of 82, 85, 87 Delphi Antinous 79, 82, 96, 99, 112 Alexandria 111, 140 ‘Farnese Antinous’ 77, 78, 82, 94 and Alexandrian luxury 67 head of ‘Antinous’, Tarragona 81–5 and Hellenistic poetics (see Callimachus and ‘Ildefonso group’ 128 Theocritus) ‘Ludovisi Antinous’, Palazzo Altemps 90 and the Ptolemies 180 ‘Mondragone Head’ 72, 79, 93, 94–5 Amazons 25, 225 so-called ‘Belvedere Antinous’ 80 amor (or ‘sexual passion’, ‘love’) 23, 211 so-called ‘Capitoline Antinous’ 80 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-12360-0 - Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome Caroline Vout Index More information Index 273 statue of Antinous, Leptis Magna 79, 89, Bagnall, Roger 141 95–111 Barthes, Roland 218 temples to 62 Bartman, Elizabeth 46, 124 Antioch 16, 214, 219 Bartsch, Shardi 43, 156 Antonia Minor 32 baths and bathing 27, 95–111 Antoninus Pius 30 Beard, Mary, North, John and Price, Simon Antonius, Marcus 2, 3, 20, 137, 157, 160 195 as played by Sid James 182 beards (see also hair) 198 Aphrodisias 25–6, 32, 36, 183 and Hadrian 11, 21, 68, 137 Aphrodite (see also Venus) 107, 109, 115 as a mark of Hellenism or intellect 157 of Cnidos 27, 29, 48, 99, 103, 215, 224, dedication of 189 226 shaving of 180, 223 Apollo 13, 19, 26, 29, 59, 73, 120, 189 beauty and Delphi 112 and art (see aesthetics) and the sanctuary at Curium 108, 110 and the body of the emperor 7–8, 29–31 as ‘kouros’74 Hollywood 160, 225 Kassel type 72 preservation of 158 Kitharoidos 97 Beerbohm, Max 157 Lyceian type 96, 98–9, 108 Belestiche22¯ Apollonius of Tyana 13, 119 Bhabha, Homi 215 Ariadne 27–8 Bieber, Margarete 72 Aristotle 20 Birley, Antony 103 Armenia 25 Bithynium in Bithynia 10, 55, 89, 110, 117, Arrian 117–18 118 Artemidorus 29 Bovary, Emma 25, 40 Ascanius 203 Boyle, Antony 168 Asclepius 109, 110, 168, 190, 198 Briseis 227–9 Asiaticus 46 Britannia 1, 25–6, 32 Astarte 109 Britannicus 5, 8, 18, 20 Astronoe 109 British Museum 52, 74 Athanasius 89 bust of Clytie 91 Athenaeus 20, 59 statue of Hadrian from Cyrene 125 Athens 30, 87, 147, 219, 223 statuette of Attis 199 temple of Athena Parthenos 25, 48, Warren Cup 74 155 Browning, Robert 233 Attis 21, 110–11, 157, 170, 173, 180, 190, Burrell, Paul 240 191–9 and Greekness 195–6 Caligula as an infant 199 and his sisters 2, 12, 46, 114 Augustan History, the 22, 29, 63, 138 as Jupiter 5, 13 Augustus death and Nachleben of 2–3, 20 and the forum 20, 35 sexual reputation of 1, 2, 18, 20, 23, 25, 115, as Jupiter 5 137 as model emperor 3, 4, 7 statues of 29 body of 7–8, 20, 29, 32 Callimachus 15, 16, 171, 181 deification of 114–15 Callistratus 30, 157 images of 29, 32–4, 53, 63–4 Calpurnius Siculus 207 Primaporta statue of 30, 203 Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall 40, 240 sexual reputation of 1–5, 20, 29, Canova, Antonio 93 137 Caprio Leonardo di 65 Aurelius, Marcus 35, 220 Caracalla 29, 39, 89 Aurelius Victor 63 Carthage 109 Autylocus 147 Cassandra 216 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-12360-0 - Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome Caroline Vout Index More information 274 Index castration 14, 15, 25, 27, 138, 139–40, 169 Cybele (see also Attis) 117, 190, 193 and psychoanalysis 26, 216 Cyrus the Great 220 legislation prohibiting 172–4, 180, 197 metaphorical weight of 172, 193, 194–201 damnatio memoriae 141, 170 without pain 172, 190 Davidson, James 44 Cato the Younger 155 Davies, Robertson 5 Catullus 15, 16, 27–8, 67, 169, 171, 181 Decianus 137, 154, 155 Cebes 30 desire (see also homosexuality) Cellini, Benvenuto 89 and desiderium 20, 134, 183 Champlin, Edward 152 and the gaze 23, 26, 48, 103–6, 147, 225 Charite 119 Diana, Roman goddess 111 Charles II 106 Diana, Princess of Wales 107, 240 Charles, Prince of Wales 240 Dido 30, 203 children and childhood 201–3 dining rooms 1–5, 23 Christianity Dio Cassius 14, 28, 100, 114, 167 and Antinous 26, 60–1, 89, 117, 139–40 as a secondary source 174 and art 14 Diocletian 89, 100, 110 cinaedi (or ‘pathic homosexuals’) 45, 155, 156 Dionysus (or Bacchus) 13, 22, 24, 28, 55, 59, Clarke, John 65, 66, 74 65, 71, 109 Claudia, daughter of Claudius 12 images of 82, 85, 94, 96, 119 Claudius 34 diuae (or deified imperial women) 37, 111, and the Saturnalia 152 114–16 apotheosis of 115 diuus, definition of a (see also imperial cult) images of 25–6, 32, 214 12–13 sexual reputation of 18 Domitian 23, 29 Claudius Etruscus 103 and Earinus (see also Earinus) 15, 21, 111, Claudius Nero, Tiberius 34 203 Cleopatra VII 158, 160 as Censor 172–4, 180, 203 and her attendants 198 as ‘dominus et deus’ 191, 197, 202 in Carry on Cleo 182 as Jupiter 13, 15, 21, 35, 180, 197 Clinton, Bill 6 as literary patron 205 Clover, Carol 24 as Sol, the sun-god 47 Colbert, Claudette 160 cruelty of 170 Coleman, Kathy 196 death of (see also damnatio memoriae) 170, Commodus 89 181 as Hercules 46 Dominik, William 168 physical appearance 30 Doryphorus, ‘husband’ of Nero 137, 152, 153, sexual reputation of 138 164 courtesans 219 Douglas, Alfred 175 as authors 6 dreaming 29, 39, 106 as commodities 20 dress in Japanese culture 6 Greek 68, 125 court society 172, 198 of Caligula and his images 29 and eunuchs 211 Drusilla (see also Caligula) 12, 114, 115–16, literary construction of 175 117 Crimp, Douglas 169 Crow, Thomas 169 Earinus 15, 21, 108, 111, 168–204 cubiculum (or ‘bedroom’) 29, 39, 203 and the dedication of his hair 181–94 cultural syncretism 110 as Attis 21 Cupid 22, 204 as Cupid 21, 199 and Earinus 21, 199 as Endymion 21 in art 34, 48, 201–3 as intermediary 184, 201 cupido (or ‘desire’) 23 as patron 183–4 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-12360-0 - Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome Caroline Vout Index More information Index 275 biography of 173–4 Galba 29, 149, 152 castration of 25, 27 Galli (castrated priests of Cybele) 190, Echmoun 109–12, 116 192 Edward VII 240 Ganymede 13, 15, 21, 26, 66, 68, 73, 89, 103–6, Edwards, Catharine 40, 43, 45 140, 173, 190 Egypt Garthwaite, John 175, 178, 179 and the death of Antinous 10, 69–71, 92, gaze, the 117, 120, 151, 157 and fragmentation 215–18 and Rome 159 and ‘resisting reading’ 35, 36 Egyptomania 69–71, 159 as transgressive 2, 39 Elagabalus or Heliogabalus 136, 137 avoidance of 2 elegiac puella, the 44, 215 of the emperor 2, 7, 26 Elizabeth I 41, 106 of the author/reader 4, 23, 147, 225 Elizabeth II 240 theory of 24–7, 213 emperor, the geography and colonialism 214–15 as desiring subject 2, 7, 18, 20–1, 32, Gera, Deborah Levine 222 107 gesture (see also sex and gesture) as divine 12–13, 25, 30 and stretching the arms heavenwards as image 28–9, 240–1 (‘(ad)orans’) 111, 208 as kleptomaniac 39, 105 Gibbon, Edward 10, 73 as object of desire 7, 20, 21, 23, Gilroy, Paul 110 27 gladiators, attraction of 21, 35 statues of 8–9, 27, 39 Gnosticism 14 Encolpius 104 Goldhill, Simon 44, 123, 213, 219, Endymion 2, 14, 28, 103 229 and Earinus 21, 190 Gracchi, the 13, 119 Ephesus 111, 116 Gradel, Ittai 113, 117, 119 picÛriov (or ‘local’) 110, 116–17, 224 Greece erastes–eromenos relationships (see Antinous and its literary heritage 180 and homosexuality) love in 6, 20–1, 108 eroticism love of 10, 148, 168, 226 and art 10, 37, 63–4 male–male desire in 17, 147 and Gnosticism 14 marriage between men in 137 and its definition 8, 17 Greekness 15–16, 21, 27 and the body of the emperor 6–9, 20, 21, and pederasty 18, 67–8 29–31, 41 and philosophy 137–8 and ‘universality’ 6, 8, 13, 235 and the local 108–11, 224 eunuchs (see also Earinus and castration) 15, degrees of 138, 141 140, 167, 219 Gregorovius, Ferdinand 93 as objects of desire 198–201 Grenfell, Bernard and Hunt, Arthur body of 169, 172, 198, 204 141 Eusebius 57, 61 Gyges 225
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