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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ormand, Kirk, 1962- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2018]
Edition:Revised edition.
Subjects:
Sex customs > Greece > History > To 1500.
Sex customs > Rome > History > To 1500.
Sex role > Greece > History > To 1500.
Sex role > Rome > History > To 1500.
Sex in literature.
Sex in art.
Sex customs.
Sex role.
Greece.
Rome (Empire)
To 1500
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xvi, 423 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Government Document 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
  • Greek pots and Greek 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
  • Roman sex on the walls and in gardens : artifacts and images
  • Imperial sex : Nero and Seneca
  • Sex in satire and invective poetry
  • Epilogue.