Cover -- Frontispiece -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Eunuchs in history and society -- 2. Eunuchs and the royal harem in Achaemenid Persia (559-331 BC) -- 3. Eunuchizing Agamemnon: Clytemnestra, Agamemnon and maschalismos -- 4. Sacred eunuchism in the cult of the Syrian goddess -- 5. Looking for eunuchs: the galli and Attis in Roman art -- 6. Eunuchs and gender transformation: Philo's exegesis of the Joseph narrative -- 7. Eunuchs and early Christianity -- 8. In or out? Origins of court eunuchs -- 9. 'Eunuchs of light'. Power, imperial ceremonial and positive representations of eunuchs in Byzantium (4th-12th centuries) -- 10. Theophylact of Ochrid's In Defence of Eunuchs -- 11. Eunuchs in the late Byzantine empire, c. 1250-1400 -- 12. Eunuch power in imperial China -- 13. The other castrati -- Index.
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