Sex: Antiquity and its Legacy (Ancients & Moderns)

Synopsis

Examines How Ancient Words And Ideas About Sex Have Left A Significant Imprint On Present-day Ideas, Showing How The Obscene And Erotic Verse Of Roman Epigram And Love Poetry Became The Sanitized Language Of 19th Century Sexual Science And Demonstrating How The Reception Of Both Latin And Greek Texts Was Central To The Development Of Modern Sexology And Psychoanalysis. Introduction. Classical Antiquity And The History Of Sexuality -- Sex, Latin And Renaissance Humanism : 'a Precious Stone In A Pile Of Dung'. The Difficulty Of Reading Epigrams ; How To Read Beccadelli? -- The Satyra Sotadica And The Erotics Of Latinity. A Man's World? ; Battle Of The Sexes ; Chorier's Protean Latin -- Sexual Enlightenment? : From Archaeology To Science. The Nature Of The Phallus ; The Priapic Scholar ; Sexual Medicine ; Sex, Science And The Classics -- Sexology, Historicism And Ancient Greece. It's All Greek To Me... ; Knowing About Ancient Greece -- From The Tribad To Sapho. Female Traditions And Greek Pederasty For Women? ; So Many Sapphos -- Freud's Classical Mythology. History And Myth ; Anthologies Of Desire : From The Hermaphrodite To The Phallic Mother ; Authority And Desire. Daniel Orrells. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 188-241) And Index.