Controlling desires : sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome /

Controlling desires : sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome /

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Author / Creator:Ormand, Kirk, 1962-
Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2009.
Description:xii, 292 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Praeger series on the ancient world, 1932-1406
Subject:
Sex customs -- Greece -- History.
Sex customs -- Rome -- History.
Sex in literature.
Sex customs.
Sex in literature.
Greece.
Rome (Empire)
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7480885
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ISBN:9780275988807 (alk. paper)
0275988805 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-285) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Homer, Hesiod, and Greek Lyric Poetry
  • 3. Sexual Roles and Sexual Rules in Classical Athens
  • 4. Sexuality in Greek Comedy
  • 5. Legal and Illegal Sex in Ancient Greece
  • 6. Philosophical Sex
  • 7. Love and Sex in Hellenistic Poetry
  • 8. Rome and Roman Sex
  • 9. Roman Comic Sex
  • 10. Legal and Illegal Sex in Ancient Rome
  • 11. Roman Poetry about Love and Sex
  • 12. Excursus: Lesbians in Ovid's Metamorphoses
  • 13. Imperial Sex: Nero and Seneca
  • 14. Sex in Satire and Invective Poetry
  • 15. Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Further Readings
  • Index

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