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Controlling desires : sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome / Kirk Ormand.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ormand, Kirk, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex customs--Greece--History--To 1500.
- Sex customs.
- Sex customs--Rome--History--To 1500.
- Sex role--Greece--History--To 1500.
- Sex role.
- Sex role--Rome--History--To 1500.
- Sex in literature.
- Sex in art.
- History.
- Greece.
- Rome (Empire).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 423 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition, revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017.
- 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
- Greek pots and Greek 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
- Roman sex on the walls and in gardens : artifacts and images
- Imperial sex : Nero and Seneca
- Sex in satire and invective poetry
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781477311455
- 1477311459
- OCLC:
- 972309248
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