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Controlling desires : sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome / Kirk Ormand.
LIBRA HQ13 .O76 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ormand, Kirk, 1962-
- Series:
- Praeger series on the ancient world
- Praeger series on the ancient world, 1932-1406
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex customs--Greece--History.
- Sex customs.
- Sex customs--Rome--History.
- Sex in literature.
- History.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2009.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Homer, Hesiod, and Greek lyric poetry
- Sexual roles and sexual rules in classical Athens
- Sexuality in Greek comedy
- Legal and illegal sex in ancient Greece
- Philosophical sex
- Love and sex in Hellenistic poetry
- Rome and Roman sex
- Roman comic sex
- Legal and illegal sex in ancient Rome
- Roman poetry about love and sex
- Excursus : lesbians in Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Imperial sex : Nero and Seneca
- Sex in satire and invective poetry.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780275988807
- 0275988805
- OCLC:
- 236328660
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