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Bisexuality in the ancient world /

"In terms of female bisexuality, accounts of love between Roman women were transmitted exclusively by men. In Greece, however, women had Sappho to give them voice. Cantarella examines the activities of the thiasoi - Greek communities of women - and reveals that their ritual ceremonies also embr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cantarella, Eva (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1992.
Subjects:
Male homosexuality > Rome > History.
Male homosexuality > Greece > History.
Bisexuality > Rome > History.
Bisexuality > Greece > History.
Bisexuality > history.
Homosexuality > history.
Greece.
Rome.
Homosexualité masculine > Rome > Histoire.
Homosexualité masculine > Grèce > Histoire.
Bisexualité > Rome > Histoire.
Bisexualité > Grèce > Histoire.
Bisexuality.
Male homosexuality.
Rome (Empire)
Homoseksualiteit.
Biseksualiteit.
Efebofilie.
Klassieke oudheid.
Antike.
Bisexualität.
Homosexualität.
Griechenland (Altertum)
Römisches Reich.
Sexuality
Roman Empire
Greece
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Greece
  • The Beginnings, the Greek Dark Age and the Archaic Period
  • The Problem of Origins and Pederasty as a Form of Initiation
  • The Homeric Poems
  • The Age of Lyric Poetry: Solon, Alcaeus, Anacreon, Theognis, Ibycus and Pindar
  • The Classical Age
  • The Etiquette of Love. How to Conquer a Boy: The Social Rules of Courtship
  • How to Love a Boy: Erotic Manifestations in the Pederastic Relationship
  • The Laws on Pederasty. Two Stages, Two Cities: Athens and Beroea
  • The Age for Loving and the Age for Being Loved
  • Breaking the Rules on Age: Custom and Law
  • Male Prostitution: The Oration of Aeschines Against Timarchus
  • Homosexuality and Heterosexuality Compared in Philosophy and Literature
  • Socrates
  • Plato
  • Xenophone
  • Aristotle
  • Plutarch
  • The Greek Anthology, Achilles Tatius and Pseudo-Lucian
  • Women and Homosexuality
  • Love Between Women
  • Women and Male Homosexuality
  • Female Homosexuality Seen by Men
  • Rome
  • The Archaic Period and the Republic
  • The Indigenous Features of Roman Homosexuality
  • Legitimate Forms of Love: Subjecting One's Own Slave, Paying a Prostitute
  • Prohibited Loves: Subjecting a Roman
  • The Lex Scatinia
  • The edict De adtemptata pudicitia
  • The Late Republic and the Principate
  • The poets: Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Ovid
  • The Lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis
  • Tradition and Innovation: The Carmina Priapea, graffiti, satire
  • The Empire
  • Practices
  • The Sexual Behaviour of the Powerful: Excuse or Example?
  • Women and Homosexuality.