Achilles
Adultery
Ambiguity
Ancient Greece
Aristotle
Asceticism
Baubo
Category=JBCC
Category=JBSF
Category=NHC
Category=NHD
Category=NHTB
Christianity
Classics
Clytemnestra
Dionysus
Disease
Dream interpretation
Effeminacy
Emblem
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Eroticism
Etymology
Euripides
Femininity
Greek Homosexuality (book)
Greek mythology
Gynaecology
Hellenistic period
Hermaphroditus
Hesiod
Hetaira
Homosexuality
Household
Ideology
Incest
Indication (medicine)
Literature
Longus
Lysistrata
Maenad
Masculinity
Misogyny
Morality
Myth and ritual
Narrative
Parthenos (mythology)
Pederasty
Penis
Philosopher
Physiognomy
Physis
Poetry
Princeton University Press
Prostitution
Rhetoric
S. (Dorst novel)
Self-control
Sexual abstinence
Sexual desire
Sexual identity
Sexual intercourse
Sigmund Freud
Slavery
Socrates
Sophocles
The Erotic
The Other Hand
The Philosopher
The Various
Thought
Treatise
Uterus
Vagina
Virginity
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691002217
- Weight: 794g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1991
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success--according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream about the dreamer's sexual psychology. Evidence of such shifts in perspective is leading scholars to reconsider in a variety of creative ways the history of sexuality. In these fifteen original essays, eminent cultural historians and classicists not only discuss sex, but demonstrate how norms, practices, and even the very definitions of what counts as sexual activity have varied significantly over time. Ancient Greece offers abundant evidence for a radically different set of sexual standards and behaviors from ours. Sex in ancient Hellenic culture assumed a variety of social and political meanings, whereas the modern development of a sex-centered model of personality now leads us to view sex as the key to understanding the individual.
Drawing on both the Anglo-American tradition of cultural anthropology and the French tradition of les sciences humaines, these essays explore the iconography, politics, ethics, poetry, and medical practices that made sex in ancient Greece not a paradise of liberation but an exotic locale hardly recognizable to visitors from the modern world. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Peter Brown, Anne Carson, Franoise Frontisi-Ducroux, Maud W. Gleason, Ann Ellis Hanson, Franois Lissarrague, Nicole Loraux, Maurice Olender, S.R.F. Price, James Redfield, Giulia Sissa, and Jean-Pierre Vernant.
