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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface | |
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| Greece | |
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| The Beginnings, the Greek Dark Age and the Archaic Period | |
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| The Problem of Origins and Pederasty as a Form of Initiation | |
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| The Homeric Poems | |
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| The Age of Lyric Poetry: Solon, Alcaeus, Anacreon, Theognis, Ibycus and Pindar | |
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| The Classical Age | |
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| The Etiquette of Love. How to Conquer a Boy: The Social Rules of Courtship | |
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| How to Love a Boy: Erotic Manifestations in the Pederastic Relationship | |
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| The Laws on Pederasty. Two Stages, Two Cities: Athens and Beroea | |
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| The Age for Loving and the Age for Being Loved | |
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| Breaking the Rules on Age: Custom and Law | |
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| Male Prostitution: The Oration of Aeschines Against Timarchus | |
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| Homosexuality and Heterosexuality Compared in Philosophy and Literature | |
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| Socrates | |
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| Plato | |
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| Xenophone | |
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| Aristotle | |
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| Plutarch | |
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| The Greek Anthology, Achilles Tatius and Pseudo-Lucian | |
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| Women and Homosexuality | |
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| Love Between Women | |
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| Women and Male Homosexuality | |
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| Female Homosexuality Seen by Men | |
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| Rome | |
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| The Archaic Period and the Republic | |
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| The Indigenous Features of Roman Homosexuality | |
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| Legitimate Forms of Love: Subjecting One's Own Slave, Paying a Prostitute | |
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| Prohibited Loves: Subjecting a Roman | |
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| The Lex Scatinia | |
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| The edict De adtemptata pudicitia | |
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| The Late Republic and the Principate | |
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| The poets: Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Ovid | |
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| The Lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis | |
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| Tradition and Innovation: The Carmina Priapea, graffiti, satire | |
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| The Empire | |
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| Practices | |
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| The Sexual Behaviour of the Powerful: Excuse or Example? | |
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| Women and Homosexuality | |
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| The Law: Constantius and Constans, Theodosius I, the Theodosian Code and the Corpus Iuris Civilis | |
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| The Metamorphoses of Sexual Ethics in the Ancient World | |
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| Metamorphoses Within Pagan Belief | |
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| The Judaeo-Christian Tradition | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Notes | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |