Sex and the ancient city : sex and sexual practices in Greco-Roman antiquity /
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| Imprint: | Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2022. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource ( 552 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 126 Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13472952 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Sex, Sexuality, Sexual Intercourse and Gender: The Terms and Contexts of the Volume
- Part I: Aspects of Homoeroticism
- Dover's "Pseudo-sexuality" and the Athenian Laws on Male Prostitutes in Politics
- Group Sex, Exhibitionism/Voyeurism and Male Homosociality
- Making the Body Speak: The (Homo)Sexual Dimensions of Sneezing in Ancient Greek Literature
- "Fell in Love with an Anus": Sexual Fantasies for Young Male Bodies and the Pederastic Gaze in Rhianus' Epigrams
- Silencing Female Intimacies: Sexual Practices, Silence and Cultural Assumptions in Lucian, Dial. Meretr. 5
- Part II: Sex and Medicine
- Clitoridectomy in Ancient Greco-Roman Medicine and the Definition of Sexual Intercourse
- Sex and Epilepsy: Seizures and Fluids in Greek Medical Imagination
- Part III: The Use and Abuse of Sex Objects
- Some Dirty Thoughts about Chairs and Stools: Iconography of Erotic Foreplay
- Olive Oil, Dildos and Sandals: Greek Sex Toys Reassessed
- Statues as Sex Objects
- Having Sex with Statues: Some Cases of Agalmatophilia in Latin Poetry
- Part IV: Sexual Liminality
- Hephaistos Among the Satyrs: Semen, Ejaculation and Autochthony in Greek Culture
- Human-animal Sex in Ancient Greece
- The Womb Inside the Male Member: A Lucianic Twist
- Part V: Sex and Disgust
- Sex and Disgust in Martial's Epigrams
- Part VI: The Scripts of Sexuality: Drama, Novel, Papyri and Later Texts
- To Voice the Physical: Sex and the Soil in Aeschylus
- Seminal Figures: Aristophanes and the Tradition of Sexual Imagery
- The Maiden who Knew Nothing about Sex: A Scabrous Theme in Novella and Comedy
- Sex and Abuse in Unhappy Marriages in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus: The Case of Two Women's Narratives Preserved on Papyrus
- "Asexuality" in the Greek Papyrus Letters
- From Plato's Symposium to Methodius' and Late Antique Hagiography: "Female" Readings of Male Sexuality
- Notes on Editors and Contributors
- Index Locorum
- General Index
