Sex & Society In Graeco-Roman
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2nd Century CE
3rd Century CE
A01=Dominic Montserrat
A01=Montserrat
ancient Egyptian sexuality
Author_Dominic Montserrat
Author_Montserrat
BGU Iv
Brother Sister Marriages
Category=GTM
Century CE
Dead Man
deir
Deir El Medina
diodorus
Dry Elements
egypt
Egypt Exploration Society
Egyptian Festivals
el-medina
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eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
Fourth Century CE
Free Woman
gender studies classics
IOI
Les Chansons De Bilitis
magical
Magical Papyri
Magical Texts
Male Male Relationships
Mid-second Century BCE
middle
mummy
Mummy Portraits
papyrology
PDM.
Petrie Museum
portraits
ritual magic practices
Sex Industry
sexual ethics antiquity
sexual identity in ancient Egypt
siculus
Significant Age Discrepancy
social anthropology
texts
Vice Versa
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138861183
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1996. Sexuality in the ancient world has received much scholarly attention in the last few years, but authors have tended to confine themselves to the literary sources from Greece and Rome. There has also been a concentration on issues of social dominance and control at the expense of analysing the emotional and experiential aspects of sexual life, for which Egypt is a unique source. This is the first comprehensive study of sex in ancient Egypt. It considers sex in its broadest sense, analysing not only the sexual practices of individual people but also the ways in which sexual activity was indivisibly woven into the fabric of social and communal life. The main sources are the innumerable private documents written in Egypt during the Graeco-Roman period, and almost miraculously preserved by the dry climate. All types of documents are used, from magic spells for winning over a lover to judicial accounts of sexual crimes, many of them translated here into English for the first time. From these fragments, a world has been reconstructed in which real people move and function as sexual beings. This is an innovative addition to our knowledge of the ancient world, and has much to say about the construction of sexuality in the ancient world, about notions of the self and the sexual self, and about the ways that people inhabited their bodies.br>br>
