Wednesday, April 18, 2012   Barbara Feichtinger (ed.), Gender
studies in den Altertumswissenschaften: Aspekte von Macht und
Erotik in der Antike. IPHIS - Beiträge zur
altertumswissenschaftlichen Genderforschung, Bd 4. Trier: WVT
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2010. Pp. 264. ISBN
9783868212723. €29.50 (pb).  Reviewed by Maria Gerolemou,
University of Cyprus (  Version at BMCR home site  Table of
Contents  This fourth volume in the Iphis series comprises the
acta of the German conference on Gender Studies in classics held
at the University of Konstanz at 12-13 July, 2007 ("Gender
Studies in den Altertumswissenschaften: Eros und Aphrodite. Von
der Macht der Erotik und der Erotik der Macht"). The different
discussions, each with its own bibliography (except
Feichtingers), assembled in this volume focus on eros as a
metaphor for politics in terms of gender from philological,
historical and archaeological points of view. The final product
provides a fresh study comparing several related classical
situations with