Sexual Culture in Ancient Greece (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture)
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (839 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080613237X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 358 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Erotic sensibility pervaded the art, literature, and social mores of the ancient Greeks. Out of this background came a distinctively Greek sexual culture--guilt-free, graphically frank, and uninhibited by taboos that became entrenched in the Middle Ages. Garrison uses well-known passages from Biblical, Near Eastern, and Greek literature to show the centrality of sexual culture in the civilizations of the area, particularly as they reflect the traditions passed on to the Western world. The only comprehensive overview of Greek sexual culture, this book is a valuable guide to the origins of our complex attitudes regarding marriage, the rights of women, homosexuality, and the role of eroticism in art, religion, ethics, and literature.. Daniel H. Illustrated with art from the earliest agricultural periods as well as from the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman eras, SEXUAL CULTURE OF ANCIENT GREECE presents nine successive stages of Greek sexual culture. Early religious figurines emphasize sexual features, and
Great book on ancient Greek sexual culture, gay and straight M. Pope I am making some short animation films about the ancient same-sex Greek myths. While researching, I was pleasantly surprised to find this book through the inter-library loan program. It was a little ironic, here I was in San Francisco, "gay mecca", borrowing this book from Christian Oklahoma to learn about same-sex sexual culture in ancient Greece, but it was published by the University Of Oklahoma Press. Though written by a straight man, it hand. Stands well alone as a college-level survey Midwest Book Review Sexual Culture In Ancient Greece adds to the university's series in classical culture, but stands well alone as a college-level survey of early religious and sexual culture in ancient Greece. Art from the earliest periods accompanies a discussion of nine successive stages of Greek sexual culture, using passages from Biblical, Near Eastern and Greek literature to trace ideas of sexual culture in regional civilizations. The only comprehensive surve
About the Author Daniel H. . Garrison is Professor of Classics at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) and is the author of THE STUDENT'S CATULLUS, SECOND EDITION and HORACE: EPODES AND ODES (both published by the University of Oklahoma Press), as well as MILD FRENZY: A READING OF THE HELLENISTIC LOVE EPIGRAM and THE LANGUAGE OF VIRGIL: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE POETRY OF THE Aeneid
. Daniel H. Garrison is Professor of Classics at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) and is the author of THE STUDENT'S CATULLUS, SECOND EDITION and HORACE: EPODES AND ODES (both published by the University of Oklahoma Press), as well as MILD FRENZY: A READING OF THE HELLENISTIC LOVE EPIGRAM and THE LANGUAGE OF VIRGIL: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE POETRY OF THE Aeneid