Sex in the Ancient World from A to Z

ISBN-13: 9780415486958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 234 str.

John Younger

Opis

Comprehensive, reliable and eye-opening, this A to Z examines the sexual practices, expressions and attitudes of the Greeks and Romans, from Catullus and Caligula, to orgies and obscenity to pederasty and prostitution.

Spis treści

Terminology  Note to Readers  Acknowledgements  Theory and Modern Scholarship  Theories   List of Illustrations  Sex in Antiquity A - Z  Ancient Sources Cited  Works of Art Cited  Bibliography

O autorze

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.