Biography
Stephanie Lynn Budin is an ancient historian specializing in Greece and the Near East. She has published numerous books and articles on sex, gender, mythology, religion, and iconography, including Freewomen, Patriarchal Authority, and the Accusation of Prostitution (Routledge 2021) and Artemis (Routledge 2016).
"B. controls a massive range of data that surveys a vast geographical region and across millennia: including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Cyprus and the Levant, and from the third to the first millennia bce. In so doing, she has provided a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of gender in the ancient Near East, which will be of interest to both students of ancient history as well as the history of gender." - The Classical Review
"...among the greatest contributions that Budin makes to ancient scholarship in this book are the well documented descriptions of how the modern notions of hetero- and homosexuality apply to the ancient world. The book vigorously challenges the Butlerian claim that sex is a cultural construct... Putting this hoary notion to rest is certainly among the most important features of this study." - Anthropos
