Research Catalog

Title

Sex and the ancient city : sex and sexual practices in Greco-Roman antiquity / edited by Andreas Serafim, George Kazantzidis and Kyriakos Demetriou.

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]
• ©2022

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Serafim, Andreas
• Kazantzidis, Georgios, 1979-
• Dēmētriou, Kyriakos N.

Description

xiii, 538 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Series Statement

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 126

Uniform Title

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 126.

Alternative Title

Sex and sexual practices in Greco-Roman antiquity

Subject

• To 1500
• Sex > Greece > History > To 1500
• Sex customs > Greece > History > To 1500
• Sex > Rome > History
• Sex customs > Rome > History
• Sex
• Sex customs
• Sexology
• Sexual practices
• Sex (Act)
• Sexuality
• Greece
• Rome (Empire)

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• 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 (homo)sexual 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.

Call Number

JFE 23-1713

ISBN

• 9783110695779
• 3110695774

LCCN

2022932188

OCLC

1308472743

Title

Sex and the ancient city : sex and sexual practices in Greco-Roman antiquity / edited by Andreas Serafim, George Kazantzidis and Kyriakos Demetriou.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 126

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 126.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Added Author

Serafim, Andreas, editor.

Kazantzidis, Georgios, 1979- editor.

Dēmētriou, Kyriakos N., editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9783110695885

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1713