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Controlling desires: sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome

Ormand, Kirk 
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN10: 0275988805 ISBN13: 9780275988807 LCC: HQ13 Edition: (alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-285) and index Introduction -- Homer, Hesiod, and Greek lyric poetry -- Sexual roles and sexual rules in classical Athens -- Sexuality in Greek comedy -- Legal and illegal sex in ancient Greece -- Philosophical sex -- Love and sex in Hellenistic poetry -- Rome and Roman sex -- Roman comic sex -- Legal and illegal sex in ancient Rome -- Roman poetry about love and sex -- Excursus : lesbians in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Imperial sex : Nero and Seneca -- Sex in satire and invective poetry

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