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Sex in the Ancient World from A to Z
About This Book
In this fascinating and revealing A-to-Z, John G. Younger examines the sexual practices, expressions and attitudes of the Greeks and Romans, from Catullus and Caligula, to orgies and obscenity, and from abstinence and incest, to pederasty and prostitution.The book opens with an overview of current thinking on ancient sex and sexuality, and goes on to provide an extraordinarily wide coverage of a sexual culture so very different from our own, approaching the subject from the perspectives of literature, history, archaeology and art.Comprehensive, reliable and eye-opening, this A-to-Z illuminates an important aspect of the classical world. For those who want to take their reading further, there are numerous references to ancient sources and modern scholarship, as well as a separate section of works of art. This is an ideal introduction to and exploration of sex in the ancient world for readers at every level.
Frequently asked questions
Ancient sources cited
Manuscripts
1.18β15
2.35β8, 5.27β84β5
3.7β90
de Natura Animalium
6.1β2
3.9β8, 21
Varia Historia
9.11β119
10.2β65
10.18β85
12.19β117
13.33β114
Alexander Severus
24β113
Elagabalusβ114β15
Epistles
10.3β8β75
In Timarchumβ3, 32
1.10β126
1.10β53
1.41β82
1.74β111
1.9β12β126
1.19β32β66
1.56.7β15
1.85β58
1.138β9β126
1.183β66, 126
Eumenides
658β66β34
Libation Bearers
896β8β25
Myrmidons
fr. 228 Metteβ2
Prometheus Bound
135β115
fr. 130.32 Lobel-Pageβ18
36 Diehlβ45
ParthΓ©neaβ68
206 K-Aβ27
14.6β47, 117
22.9.15β2
PMG
346β107, 109
347β7
358β7, 68, 116
376β117
fr. 45β45β6
fr. 369 Diehlβ45β6
K-A
fr. 21β107β8
in Alc.
4.42β18
2.154.20β25β2
βOn Hetaerasββ111, 117
101 K-Aβ26
17β45β69
21β8
1.2.6β44
1.3.2β3
1.9.9, 11, and 12β3
1.9.17β141
2.1.4β81
2.5.4β30
2.63β126
3.1.2β4β81
3.4.3β41
3.6.7β132
3.13.8β133
3.12.2β52
3.14.3 and 4β3
3.14.6β15
3.101β64
3.116β58
5.1.6 and 9β81
1.57 scholiastβ29
2.188 ff.β22
Apology
10β106
Metamorphosesβ85
2.11.2β50
4.28β12
10.22β19
196A West=S478 Page=Campbell 1976:463:15β16β36
De causis et signis acutorum morborum
2.5.4β2
Milesian Talesβ84
1.13β32
Acharnians
527β30β14
790β2β9
1199β1200β25
Clouds
8β10β22
341 ff.β140
358β63β115
373β23
974β8β15, 53
1079β85β3
Eccles. β
647β37
735β54
endβ107
Frogs
422β37
1279fβ17
1308β46, 68
Knights
115β7β22
1278 f., and scholiastβ2
1397β1401β109
1401, 1279fβ17
Lys.β2, 130, 14
79β83β86, 128
83β92β68
107β10β41
150β7β55
163β6β140
230β40β124
641β7β41
710β30β141
876β9β124
918β64
endβ...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Theory and Modern Scholarship
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Z
- Bibliography
- Ancient Sources Cited
- Works of Art Cited