Sexuality in Greek and Roman culture /
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| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2014.
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| ISBN: | 9781444349863 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1444349864 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations and maps
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chronological charts
- Maps
- Introduction: why ancient sexuality? : issues and approaches
- The Homeric age : epic sexuality
- The archaic age : symposium and initiation
- Late archaic athens : more than meets the eye
- Classical Athens : the politics of sex
- The early hellenistic period : turning inwards
- The later hellenistic period : the feminine mystique
- Early Rome : a tale of three cultures
- Republican and Augustan Rome : the soft embrace of Venus
- Elites in the empire : self and others
- The imperial populace : toward salvation?
- Afterword: the use of antiquity
- Glossary of terms
- Index.