The Greeks and Greek Love
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: November 29, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780297819974
Subjects: Ancient Greek religion; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Sex & sexuality; Ancient Greece
Description: James Davidson uses a wide variety of sources - court cases, romantic novels, satirical plays and poems - to present a view of the subject that stresses the humanity of the ancient Greeks, and how they lived their loves and pleasures, rather than their moral codes and the theorising of philosophers.