Sex in the Ancient World from A to Z
by John Younger
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In this fascinating and revealing A-to-Z, John G. Younger examines the sexual practices, expressions and attitudes of the Greeks and Romans, from Catullus and Caligula, to orgies and obscenity, and from abstinence and incest, to pederasty and prostitution.The book opens with an overview of current thinking on ancient sex and sexuality, and goes on to provide an extraordinarily wide coverage of a sexual culture so very different from our own, approaching the subject from the perspectives of show more literature, history, archaeology and art.Comprehensive, reliable and eye-opening, this A- show lessTags
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The book is still a useful reference resource for love and sexuality in the Classical world, a subject that keeps growing in popularity. The entries are a good starting point for students and scholars coming to the field with little or no previous knowledge or looking for a quick guide to specific unfamiliar topics. Succinct, easy to use, but very expensive, Younger's book will find its place show more in the reference section of libraries rather than in students' or even scholars' private book collections. show less
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