Controlling desires
Subtitle: sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome
By: Kirk Ormand.
Series: Praeger series on the ancient world
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780275988807
Subjects: Sex customs -- Greece -- History; Sex customs -- Rome -- History; Sex in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Homer, Hesiod, and Greek lyric poetry; title: Sexual roles and sexual rules in classical Athens; title: Sexuality in Greek comedy; title: Legal and illegal sex; title: Philosophical sex; title: Love and sex in Hellenistic poetry; title: Rome and Roman sex; title: Roman comic sex; title: Legal and illegal sex in ancient Rome; title: Roman poetry about love and/or sex; title: Excursus : lesbians in Ovid's metamorphoses; title: Imperial sex : Nero and Seneca; title: Sex in satire and invective poetry.