Giulia Sissa (born 16 June 1954) is an Italian classical scholar and historian of philosophy. She is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Classics at

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. The majority of her works deal specifically with the role of women in the Ancient Mediterranean.

Life

Born in

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, Giulia Sissa graduated in Classics from the

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in 1977 before studying at the

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in Paris, gaining the Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies in 1979 and the Doctorat de IIIe cycle in 1983. She has been a researcher at the of

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, and at the

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in Paris. She has also been Professor of Classics and head of department at

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.Two lectures by Giulia Sissa (UCLA)
, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory,

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Works

* 'Il corpo della donna' he woman's body in Silvia Campese, Paola Manuli and Giluia Sissa (eds.) ''Madre materia: sociologia e biologia della donna greca''. Turin: Boringhieri, 1983 * (with Marcel Detienne) ''The daily life of the Greek gods'' Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989. Translated by Janet Lloyd from the French ''La vie quotidienne des dieux grecs'' (1987). * ''Greek virginity''. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990. Translated by

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from the French 'Le corps virginal: la virginité féminine en Grèce ancienne'' (1987). * ''Le plaisir et le mal: philosophie de la drogue'' leasure and evil: a philosophy of drugs Paris: O. Jacob, 1997 * ''L'âme est un corps de femme'' he soul is a woman's body 1999 * ''Sex and sensuality in the ancient world''. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. Translated by George Staunton from the Italian ''Eros tiranno: sessualità e sensualità nel mondo antico'' (2003). * ''Jealousy: a forbidden passion''. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015 * (ed. with Han van Ruler) ''Utopia 1516-2016: More's eccentric essay and its activist aftermath''. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017.

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Anesthetic Humanism? Conflicting Ethics of Pleasure and Pain
1954 births Italian classical scholars Italian women classical scholars Italian historians of philosophy 20th-century Italian philosophers 21st-century Italian philosophers Italian women philosophers University of Pavia alumni Classical scholars of Johns Hopkins University Classical scholars of the University of California, Los Angeles Living people {{Italy-philosopher-stub