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| Genre/Form: | History Textbooks |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marilyn B Skinner |
| ISBN: | 9781444349863 1444349864 9781118610817 1118610814 9781118610923 111861092X 9781118611081 111861108X |
| OCLC Number: | 995258274 |
| Description: | xxxi, 425 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | List of illustrations and maps -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chronological charts -- Maps -- Introduction: why ancient sexuality? : issues and approaches -- The Homeric age : epic sexuality -- The archaic age : symposium and initiation -- Late archaic athens : more than meets the eye -- Classical Athens : the politics of sex -- The early hellenistic period : turning inwards -- The later hellenistic period : the feminine mystique -- Early Rome : a tale of three cultures -- Republican and Augustan Rome : the soft embrace of Venus -- Elites in the empire : self and others -- The imperial populace : toward salvation? -- Afterword: the use of antiquity -- Glossary of terms. |
| Series Title: | Ancient cultures, 2621. |
| Responsibility: | Marilyn B. Skinner. |
Abstract:
This agenda-setting text has been fully revised in its second edition, with coverage extended into the Christian era. It remains the most comprehensive and engaging introduction to the sexual cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. Covers a wide range of subjects, including Greek pederasty and the symposium, ancient prostitution, representations of women in Greece and Rome, and the public regulation of sexual behavior. Expanded coverage extends to the advent of Christianity, includes added illustrations, and offers student-friendly pedagogical features.
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