Before sexuality : the construction of erotic experience in the ancient Greek world /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[1990], ©1990
Princeton, N.J. : c1990 Princeton, N.J. : ©1990 Princeton, N.J. : c1990 Princeton, N.J. : [1990] |
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| Summary: | 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 radically different set of sexual standards and behaviors from ours. Sex in ancient Hellenic culture assumed a variety of social and political meanings, whereas the modern development of a sex-centered model of personality now leads us to view sex as the key to understanding the individual. Drawing on both the Anglo-American tradition of cultural anthropology and the French tradition of les sciences humaines, these essays explore the iconography, politics, ethics, poetry, and medical practices that made sex in ancient Greece not a paradise of liberation but an exotic locale hardly recognizable to visitors from the modern world |
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| Item Description: | Includes index This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xii, 156 p 25 cm. xix, 526 p. : ill. ; 24 cm xix, 526 p. : ill. ; 25 cm xix, 526 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index Includes bibliographical references and indexes Includes bibliographical references Includes bibliographies and index Includes bibliographies |
| ISBN: | 0691002215 (pbk.) 0691002215 0691035385 (alk. paper) : 0691035385 9780691002217 9780691035383 (alk. paper) 9780691035383 |