(P/B) CONTROLLING DESIRES

Παρουσίαση

Since its first publication in 2009, Controlling Desires has been widely lauded as an accessible introduction to sexual practices, attitudes, and beliefs in the classical world. Treating Greece and Rome in separate sections, with ample cross-references and comparisons, Kirk Ormand presents a wide array of evidence from literary texts and visual arts, including two new chapters on Greek vase painting and Roman artifacts and wall paintings.
Now with new chapters on Greek vase painting and Roman artifacts and wall paintings, Controlling Desires is the essential classroom and general introduction to sexual practices, attitudes, and beliefs in the classical world.

"Comprehensive, reader-friendly, richly detailed, forthright, subtle, and very clear, Controlling Desires is the only handbook on ancient sexuality that works persistently to offset modern readers' assumptions about sex and sexuality, to challenge the notion that sexuality is natural and universal, and to bring out the differences between ancient and modern discourses of sex - or, even, between ancient and modern experiences of desire. As such, it is a very helpful resource for students working on the history of sexuality in classical antiquity, because it shows how such a history might be possible and what is actually historical about sexuality." (David M. Halperin, University of Michigan, author of One Hundred Years of Homosexuality, Saint Foucault, and How to Do the History of Homosexuality)

Περιεχόμενα

FIGURES
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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
GREEK POTS AND GREEK 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
ROMAN SEX ON THE WALLS AND IN GARDENS: ARTIFACTS AND IMAGES
IMPERIAL SEX: NERO AND SENECA
SEX IN NATURE AND INVECTIVE POETRY
EPILOGUE
TIMELINE OF GREEK HISTORY AND CULTURE
TIMELINE OF ROMAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
NOTES
FURTHER READINGS
INDEX