A CULTURAL HISTORY OF SEXUALITY IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD

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The first systematic cultural history of the subjectBrings together the original research of an international range of scholarsAlso available as a 6volume set 9781845207021 350 (December 2010)Mark Golden is Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg 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 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.1 Introduction 1Mark Golden (University of Winnipeg Canada) and Peter Toohey (University of Calgary Canada)2 Heterosexuality Susan Lape (University of Southern California USA)3 Homosexuality Daniel Ogden (University of Exeter UK)4 Sexual Variations: Sexual Peculiarities of the Ancient Greeks and Romans John Younger (University of Kansas USA)5 Sex Religion and the Law Esther Eidinow (Newman University College Birmingham UK)6 Sex Medicine and Disease Helen King (University of Reading UK)7 Sex Popular Beliefs and Culture Holt Parker (University of Cincinnati USA)8 Prostitution Allison Glazebrook (Brock University Canada)9 Erotica: Visual Representation of Greek and Roman Sexual Culture John R. Clarke (University of Texas USA)Notes Bibliography Contributors Index of Ancient Sources Subject IndexBOTTOM LINE Upperdivision undergraduate and graduate students will find this overview of the progression of thought about sexuality in the Western world helpful in their studies of social history cultural history and gender.Holt Parkers chapter Sex Popular Beliefs and Culture won the 2014 Paul Rehak Award for Published Scholarship from the Lambda Classical CaucusA 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.

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