A CULTURAL HISTORY OF SEXUALITY IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD

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The first systematic cultural history of the subject now available in paperbackAn innovative and accessible contribution to current scholarship on the periodBrings together the original research of an international range of scholarsMark Golden is Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg Canada and author of Children and Childhood in Classical Athens Sport and Society in Ancient Greece Sport in the Ancient World from A to Z and Greek Sport and Social Status.Peter Toohey is Professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary Canada and is author of Reading Epic Epic Lessons and Melancholy Love and Time.Though many of the sexual practices of the Ancient Greeks and Romans are known and accepted today the meanings the Ancients associated with these acts were often utterly different from our own. Both idea and practice also varied within antiquity shaped by locale history social class age legal status and gender. Focusing on the cultures of the Mediterranean from 800 BCE to 350 CE A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World covers sexual practices feelings and ideas from the time of Homer to the transformation of the Roman Empire.A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World presents an overview of the period with essays on heterosexuality homosexuality sexual variations religious and legal issues health concerns popular beliefs about sexuality prostitution and erotica.A thematic overview of how sexuality was perceived in the period from 800 BCE to 350 CE covering homosexuality heterosexuality sexual variations prostitution medicine religion erotica and popular belief.PrefaceSeries AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations1 Introduction Mark Golden University of Winnipeg Canada and Peter Toohey University of Calgary Canada.2 Heterosexuality Susan Lape University of Southern California USA3 Homosexuality Daniel Ogden University of Exeter UK4 Sexual Variations: Sexual Peculiarities of the Ancient Greeks and Romans John Younger University of Kansas USA5 Sex Religion and the Law Esther Eidinow Newman University College Birmingham UK6 Sex Medicine and Disease Helen King University of Reading UK7 Sex Popular Beliefs and Culture Holt Parker University of Cincinnati USA8 Prostitution Allison Glazebrook Brock University Canada9 Erotica: Visual Representation of Greek and Roman Sexual Culture John R. Clarke University of Texas USANotes Bibliography Contributors Index of Ancient Sources Subject Index

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