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Sex and the ancient city : sex and sexual practices in Greco-Roman antiquity / edited by Andreas Serafim, George Kazantzidis and Kyriakos Demetriou.
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English
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Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]
©2022
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xiii, 538 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Classics Collection
HQ18.G8 S495 2022
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Sex
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Greece
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History
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To 1500
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Sex customs
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Greece
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History
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To 1500
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Sex
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Rome
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History
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Sex customs
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Rome
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History
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Editor
Serafim, Andreas
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Kazantzidis, Georgios, 1979-
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Dēmētriou, Kyriakos N.
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Series
Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 126.
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Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 126
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Summary note
This volume aims to revisit, further explore and tease out the textual, but also non-textual sources in an attempt to reconstruct a clearer picture of a particular aspect of sexuality, i.e. sexual practices, in Greco-Roman antiquity. Sexual practices refers to a part of the overarching notion of sexuality: specifically, the acts of sexual intercourse, the erogenous capacities and genital functions of male and female body, and any other physical or biological actions that define one?s sexual identity or orientation. This volume aims to approach not simply the acts of sexual intercourse themselves, but also their legal, social, political, religious, medical, cultural/moral and interdisciplinary (e.g. emotional, performative) perspectives, as manifested in a range of both textual and non-textual evidence (i.e. architecture, iconography, epigraphy, etc.). The insights taken from the contributions to this volume would enable researchers across a range of disciplines - e.g. sex/gender studies, comparative literature, psychology and cognitive neuroscience - to use theoretical perspectives, methodologies and conceptual tools to frame the sprawling examination of aspects of sexuality in broad terms, or sexual practices in particular.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Sex, sexuality, sexual intercourse and gender : The terms and contexts of the volume/ Andreas Serafim, George Kazantzidis and Kyriakos Demetriou
Part I : Aspects of homoeroticism
Dover's 'pseudo-sexuality' and the Athenian laws on male prostitutes in politics / Konstantinos Kapparis
Group sex, exhibitionism
voyeurism and male homosociality / Thomas K. Hubbard
Making the body speak : The (homosexual dimensions of sneezing in ancient Greek literature / Andreas Serafim
'Fell in love with an anus' : Sexual fantasies for young male bodies and the pederastic gaze in Rhianus' epigrams / Manolis Spanakis
Silencing female intimacies : Sexual practices, silence and cultural assumptions in Lucian, Dial. Meretr. / Andreas Fountoulakis
Part II : Sex and medicine
Clitoridectomy in ancient Greco-Roman medicine and the definition of sexual intercourse / Chiara Thumiger
Sex and epilepsy : seizures and fluids in Greek medical imagination / George Kazantzidis-- Part III : The use and abuse of sex objects
Some dirty thoughts about chairs and stools : Iconography of erotic foreplay / Bartłomiej Bednarek
Olive oil, dildos and sandals : Greek Sex toys reassessed / Emma Stafford
Statues as sex objects / Regina Höschele
Having sex with statues : some cases of agalmatophilia in Latin poetry / Charilaos N. Michalopoulos
Part IV : Sexual liminality
Hephaistos among the Satyrs : Semen, ejaculation and autochthony in Greek culture / Jeremy McInerney
Human-animal sex in ancient Greece / José Malheiro Magalhães
The womb inside the male member : A Lucianic twist / Catalina Popescu
Part V : Sex and disgust
Sex and disgust in Martial's Epigrams / Gabriel Evangelou
Part VI : The scripts of sexuality : Drama, novel, papyri and later texts
To voice the physical : Sex and the soil in Aeschylus / Nikos Manousakis
Seminal figures : Aristophanes and the tradition of sexual imagery / Dimitrios Kanellakis-- The maiden who knew nothing about sex : A scabrous theme in novella and comedy / loannis M. Konstantakos
Sex and abuse in unhappy marriages in late antique Oxyrhynchus : The case of two women's narratives preserved on papyrus / Amphilochios Papathomas and Aikaterini Koroli
'Asexuality' in the Greek papyrus letters / Rosalia Hatzilambrou
From Plato's Symposium to Methodius' and late antique hagiography : 'Female' readings of male sexuality / Stephanos Efthymiadis and Charis Messis.
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Sex and sexual practices in Greco-Roman antiquity
ISBN
9783110695779 ((hardback))
3110695774 ((hardback))
LCCN
2022932188
OCLC
1308472743
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