Before Sexuality The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World

Name: Before Sexuality The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World
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ISBN: 9780691002217

ISBN-10: 0691002215

ISBN-13: 9780691002217

Edition: 1990

Authors: Froma I. Zeitlin, John J. Winkler, David M. Halperin

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A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success--according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream about the dreamer's sexual psychology. Evidence of such shifts in perspective is leading scholars to reconsider in a variety of creative ways the history of sexuality. In these fifteen original essays, eminent cultural historians and classicists not only discuss sex, but demonstrate how norms, practices, and even the very definitions of what counts as sexual activity have varied significantly over time. Ancient Greece offers abundant evidence for a…

Book details

List price: $79.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/1/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 552
Size: 6.54" wide x 8.98" long x 1.28" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English

David M. Halperin is W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.



List of Illustrations


Preface


List of Abbreviations


Introduction



Herakles: The Super-Male and the Feminine




The Sexual Life of Satyrs




Aspects of Baubo: Ancient Texts and Contexts




From Sex to Politics: The Rites of Artemis Triklaria and Dionysos Aisymnetes at Patras




Putting Her in Her Place: Woman, Dirt, and Desire




Laying Down the Law: The Oversight of Men's Sexual Behavior in Classical Athens




From Ambiguity to Ambivalence: A Dionysiac Excursion through the "Anakreontic" Vases




Why Is Diotima a Woman? Platonic Eros and the Figuration of Gender




The Medical Writers' Woman




Maidenhood without Maidenhead: The Female Body in Ancient Greece




The Future of Dreams: From Freud to Artemidoros




The Semiotics of Gender: Physiognomy and Self-Fashioning in the Second Century C.E.




The Poetics of Eros: Nature, Art, and Imitation in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe




One ... Two ... Three: Eros




Bodies and Minds: Sexuality and Renunciation in Early Christianity



Notes on Contributors


Index of Passages Discussed


General Index