Sex in the Ancient World from A to Z - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415242525 ISBN 13: 9780415242523

Verlag: Routledge, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

In this fascinating and revealing A-to-Z, John G. Younger examines the sexual practices, expressions and attitudes of the Greeks and Romans, from Catullus and Caligula, to orgies and obscenity, and from abstinence and incest, to pederasty and prostitution.

The book opens with an overview of current thinking on ancient sex and sexuality, and goes on to provide an extraordinarily wide coverage of a sexual culture so very different from our own, approaching the subject from the perspectives of literature, history, archaeology and art.

Comprehensive, reliable and eye-opening, this A-to-Z illuminates an important aspect of the classical world. For those who want to take their reading further, there are numerous references to ancient sources and modern scholarship, as well as a separate section of works of art. This is an ideal introduction to and exploration of sex in the ancient world for readers at every level.

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John G. Younger is professor of Classics and of Humanities and Western Civilisation at the University of Kansas. He has published widely on Minoan-Mycenaean art and scripts and on Classical Greek sculpture and gender and sexuality.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415242525
• ISBN 13: 9780415242523
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260
• Herausgeber: Younger John
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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