Sex [[electronic resource] ] : vice and love from antiquity to modernity / / Alastair J.L. Blanshard
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Blanshard Alastair
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| Titolo: |
Sex [[electronic resource] ] : vice and love from antiquity to modernity / / Alastair J.L. Blanshard
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| Pubblicazione: | Chichester ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.70938 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sex - History |
| Sex customs - History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Part I: Roman Vice; 1: Introduction; 2: Naked Bodies; An Introduction (less than successful) to the Naked Body; The Naked Body in Greece; Naked Romans; The Love of Art and the Art of Love; 3: Obscene Texts; Illustrating the Unspeakable; Talking Dirty; 4: Erotic Rites; The Myth of the Orgy; Locating the Erotic in Roman Religion; 5: Imperial Biography; The Private Lives of the Caesars; Explaining Roman Gossip Culture; Part II: Greek Love; 6: Introduction; What is 'Greek Love'? Scenes from a Courtroom I; 7: Greece |
| The Loves of HellasThe Platonic Vision; 8: Rome and the West; Greece under Rome and Rome under Greece; Greek Love Burns Briefly, but Brightly; 9: Renaissance and Enlightenment; Giving Birth in the Beautiful; The Pursuit of Love; 10: Nineteenth Century and Beyond; Greek Love Triumphant; Sapphic Love; A Mixed Legacy: Greek Love in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries; 11: Epilogue; Scenes from a Courtroom II; Notes and Further Reading; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity examines the impact that sexual fantasies about the classical world have had on modern Western culture. Offers a wealth of information on sex in the Greek and Roman worldCorrelates the study of classical sexuality with modern Western culturesIdentifies key influential themes in the evolution of erotic discourse from antiquity to modernityPresents a serious and thought-provoking topic with great accessibility |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sex |
| ISBN: | 1-119-06253-5 |
| 1-282-48268-8 | |
| 9786612482687 | |
| 1-4443-2356-3 | |
| 1-4443-2357-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996441552003316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Serie:
Classical receptions.