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Before Sexuality

The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World

Froma I. Zeitlin, John J. Winkler, David M. Halperin, Froma I. Zeitlin, John J. Winkler, David M. Halperin

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Before Sexuality

The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World

Froma I. Zeitlin, John J. Winkler, David M. Halperin, Froma I. Zeitlin, John J. Winkler, David M. Halperin

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A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success--according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream about the dreamer's sexual psychology. Evidence of such shifts in perspective is leading scholars to reconsider in a variety of creative ways the history of sexuality. In these fifteen original essays, eminent cultural historians and classicists not only discuss sex, but demonstrate how norms, practices, and even the very definitions of what counts as sexual activity have varied significantly over time. Ancient Greece offers abundant evidence for a radically different set of sexual standards and behaviors from ours. Sex in ancient Hellenic culture assumed a variety of social and political meanings, whereas the modern development of a sex-centered model of personality now leads us to view sex as the key to understanding the individual. Drawing on both the Anglo-American tradition of cultural anthropology and the French tradition of les sciences humaines, these essays explore the iconography, politics, ethics, poetry, and medical practices that made sex in ancient Greece not a paradise of liberation but an exotic locale hardly recognizable to visitors from the modern world. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Peter Brown, Anne Carson, Franoise Frontisi-Ducroux, Maud W. Gleason, Ann Ellis Hanson, Franois Lissarrague, Nicole Loraux, Maurice Olender, S.R.F. Price, James Redfield, Giulia Sissa, and Jean-Pierre Vernant.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780691221335
Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
History
The 
Sexual 
Life 
of 
Satyrs
69
FIG.
2.1. 
Return 
of
Hephaistos,
mounted 
on 
ithyphallic 
donkey, 
followed 
by 
at
least 
three 
satyrs 
(labelled
SILENOI).
Black-figure 
krater. 
Francois 
vase, 
lower
register 
of
B
face. 
Florence 
4209.
FIG.
2.2. 
Seated 
Dionysos 
framed 
by 
four 
satyrs; 
the 
one 
playing 
the 
aulos 
has
animal 
legs 
and 
hooves, 
the 
other 
three 
are 
dancing 
and 
have 
human 
legs 
and
feet. 
Black-figure 
mastos. 
Wurzburg 
391.
70
Lissarrague
FIG.
2.3. 
Satyr 
riding 
on 
another 
satyr, 
donkey 
walking 
erect 
on 
hind 
legs.
Black-figure 
amphora 
fragment 
attributed 
to 
Amasis. 
Samos, 
unnumbered.
FIG.
2.4. 
Satyr 
sitting 
frontally, 
masturbating. 
Black-figure 
amphora. 
Berlin
1671.
FIG.
2.5. 
Reverse 
side 
of 
figure 
2.4; 
satyr 
sitting 
frontally 
with 
enormous 
flaccid
penis.
The 
Sexual 
Life 
of 
Satyrs
71
FIG.
2.6. 
Three 
satyrs 
masturbating; 
names 
inscribed,
DOPHIOS
(from
dephesthai,
to 
knead 
oneself),
PSOLAS
(psolos,
erect), 
and
TERPEKELOS
("shaft-pleasure").
Black-figure 
aryballos 
by 
Nearkhos. 
New 
York 
26.49.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Preface
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Herakles: The Super-Male and the Feminine
  11. 2. The Sexual Life of Satyrs
  12. 3. Aspects of Baubo: Ancient Texts and Contexts
  13. 4. From Sex to Politics: The Rites of Artemis Triklaria and Dionysos Aisymnetes at Patras
  14. 5. Putting Her in Her Place: Woman, Dirt, and Desire
  15. 6. Laying Down the Law: The Oversight of Men's Sexual Behavior in Classical Athens
  16. 7. From Ambiguity to Ambivalence: A Dionysiac Excursion through the "Anakreontic" Vases
  17. 8. Why Is Diotima a Woman? Platonic Eros and the Figuration of Gender
  18. 9. The Medical Writers5 Woman
  19. 10. Maidenhood without Maidenhead: The Female Body in Ancient Greece
  20. 11. The Future of Dreams: From Freud to Artemidoros
  21. 12. The Semiotics of Gender: Physiognomy and Self-Fashioning in the Second Century C.E.
  22. 13. The Poetics of Eros: Nature, Art, and Imitation in Longus
  23. 14. One . . . Two . . . Three: Eros
  24. 15. Bodies and Minds: Sexuality and Renunciation in Early Christianity
  25. Notes on Contributors
  26. Index of Passages Discussed
  27. General Index
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APA 6 Citation

[author missing]. (2020). Before Sexuality ([edition unavailable]). Princeton University Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1891994/before-sexuality-the-construction-of-erotic-experience-in-the-ancient-greek-world-pdf (Original work published 2020)

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MLA 7 Citation

[author missing]. Before Sexuality. [edition unavailable]. Princeton University Press, 2020. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.