Sexual culture in ancient Greece
By: Daniel H. Garrison
Series: Oklahoma series in classical culture -- v. 24
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Sex -- Greece -- History; Sex customs -- Greece -- History; Sex -- Mythology -- Greece; Sex in art; Sex in literature; Civilization, Classical
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-331) and index
Table of contents: title: Sexual religion: the roots of sexual culture; title: Coming of age in the ancient Near East: two sexual myths of cultural initiation; title: Hellenizing Greece: the revision of Bronze Age mythology; title: Greek patriarchy: the severe style; title: Education of the senses from Solon to Pericles; title: Idealizing love: Plato, sex, and philosophy; title: Sexual beauty: the nude in Greek art; title: Erotic friendship: romantic fictions; title: Anerotic religion: Greek themes in Early Christianity