Law, Sexuality, and Society
Subtitle: The Enforcement of Morals in Classical Athens
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 25, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780521466424
Subjects: Gender studies; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; History - General History; History; History: World; Ancient - Greece; Human Sexuality; History / Ancient / General; History / Ancient / Greece; Psychology-Human Sexuality; Sex and law; Ancient - General
First sentence: As it is clear from Divine Scripture that our omnipotent God, detesting the sin of sodomy and wishing to demonstrate that fact, brought down his wrath upon the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and soon thereafter flooded and destroyed the whole world for such horrible sins, our most honorable ancestors sought with their laws and efforts to liberate our city from such a dangerous divine judgment