Sexuality in Greek and Roman culture
By: Marilyn B. Skinner
Edition: 2nd edition.
Series: Ancient cultures; Ancient cultures (Malden, Mass.)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9781444349863; 9781118611081; 9781118610923; 9781118610817
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Antike; Textbooks; Sexualverhalten; Sexualität; History; Sex customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations and maps; title: Preface to the first edition; title: Preface to the second edition; title: Acknowledgments; title: Abbreviations; title: Chronological charts; title: Maps; title: Introduction: why ancient sexuality? : issues and approaches; title: The Homeric age : epic sexuality; title: The archaic age : symposium and initiation; title: Late archaic athens : more than meets the eye; title: Classical Athens : the politics of sex; title: The early hellenistic period : turning inwards; title: The later hellenistic period : the feminine mystique; title: Early Rome : a tale of three cultures; title: Republican and Augustan Rome : the soft embrace of Venus; title: Elites in the empire : self and others; title: The imperial populace : toward salvation?; title: Afterword: the use of antiquity; title: Glossary of terms.