| Description |
x, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
New ancient world |
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New ancient world.
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| Contents |
pt. 1. One hundred years of homosexuality -- "Homosexuality" : a cultural construct (an exchange with Richard Schneider) -- Two views of Greek love : Harold Patzer and Michel Foucault -- pt. 2. Heroes and their pals -- The democratic body : prostitution and citizenship in classical Athens -- Why is Diotima a woman? |
| Summary |
Examining love, sex and gender in the ancient Greek world, the author documents the existence in ancient Greece of a radically unfamiliar set of attitudes and behaviours, institutions and social practices |
| Analysis |
Greece ancient period Sex relations |
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Male homosexuality - Greece - History |
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Sodomy - Greece - History |
| Notes |
"The New ancient world"--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 213-224 |
| Subject |
Homosexuality -- Greece -- History.
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Male homosexuality -- Greece -- History.
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Sodomy -- Greece -- History.
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Homosexuality -- history.
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| SUBJECT |
Greece. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006115 |
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Greece. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006115 |
| LC no. |
89033158 |
| ISBN |
0415900964 |
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0415900972 (paperback) |
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