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Sexuality in greek and roman culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Skinner, Marilyn B.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
Edition:2nd Edition.
Series:Ancient cultures (Malden, Mass.)
Subjects:
Sex customs > Greece > History > To 1500 > Textbooks.
Sex customs > Rome > History > Textbooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations and maps
  • Preface to the first edition
  • Preface to the second edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Chronological charts
  • Maps
  • Introduction: why ancient sexuality? : issues and approaches
  • The Homeric age : epic sexuality
  • The archaic age : symposium and initiation
  • Late archaic athens : more than meets the eye
  • Classical Athens : the politics of sex
  • The early hellenistic period : turning inwards
  • The later hellenistic period : the feminine mystique
  • Early Rome : a tale of three cultures
  • Republican and Augustan Rome : the soft embrace of Venus
  • Elites in the empire : self and others
  • The imperial populace : toward salvation?
  • Afterword: the use of antiquity
  • Glossary of terms
  • Index.