Controlling desires : sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome / Kirk Ormand.

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Main Author: Ormand, Kirk, 1962-
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2009.
Series:Praeger series on the ancient world.
Subjects:
Sex customs > Greece > History.
Sex customs > Rome > History.
Sex in literature.
Physical Description:xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Homer, Hesiod, and Greek lyric poetry
  • Sexual roles and sexual rules in classical Athens
  • Sexuality in Greek comedy
  • Legal and illegal sex in ancient Greece
  • Philosophical sex
  • Love and sex in Hellenistic poetry
  • Rome and Roman sex
  • Roman comic sex
  • Legal and illegal sex in ancient Rome
  • Roman poetry about love and sex
  • Excursus : lesbians in Ovid's Metamorphoses
  • Imperial sex : Nero and Seneca
  • Sex in satire and invective poetry.