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Controlling desires : sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome
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Controlling desires : sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome

Author: Kirk Ormand
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2009.
Series: Praeger series on the ancient world
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
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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