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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ormand, Kirk, 1962- Controlling desires. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2009 (OCoLC)606872324 Online version: Ormand, Kirk, 1962- Controlling desires. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2009 (OCoLC)609093735 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kirk Ormand |
| ISBN: | 9780275988807 0275988805 |
| OCLC Number: | 236328660 |
| Description: | xii, 292 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Homer, Hesiod, and Greek lyric poetry -- Sexual roles and sexual rules in classical Athens -- Sexuality in Greek comedy -- Legal and illegal sex in ancient Greece -- Philosophical sex -- Love and sex in Hellenistic poetry -- Rome and Roman sex -- Roman comic sex -- Legal and illegal sex in ancient Rome -- Roman poetry about love and sex -- Excursus : lesbians in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Imperial sex : Nero and Seneca -- Sex in satire and invective poetry. |
| Series Title: | Praeger series on the ancient world. |
| Responsibility: | Kirk Ormand. |
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Abstract:
Exploring Greek and Roman sexual practice, this title shows how attitudes and beliefs about sex and sexuality functioned in the early civilizations of the West, and how those attitudes reveal the unspoken rules that defined public and private behavior. It also discusses what each culture considered normal and deviant for both men and women.
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"Ormand's wide-ranging analysis, from Homer, Plato, Sappho, and Aristophanes to Plautus, Cicero, Ovid, and Petronius adds an additional level of insight into traditional classical studies." - College & Research Libraries News
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