Bisexuality in the ancient world

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"In this readable and thought-provoking history of bisexuality in the classical age, Eva Cantarella draws on the full range of sources - from legal texts, inscriptions, and medical documents to poetry and philosophical literature - to reconstruct and compare the bisexual cultures of Athens and Rome. This new edition incorporates a new preface and an updated bibliography."--Jacket.

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Full title :Bisexuality in the ancient world / Eva Cantarella ; translated by Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:1992.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Yale University Press
Place of Publication:New Haven
Language:eng
Publication Date:1992.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 284 pages ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0300093020, 9780300093025
oclc:ocm49823074
LC Classification:HQ76.2.R6
Dewey Decimal:306.765

pt. 1. Greece -- 1. The Beginnings, the Greek Dark Age and the Archaic Period -- 2. The Classical Age -- 3. Homosexuality and Heterosexuality Compared in Philosophy and Literature -- 4. Women and Homosexuality -- pt. 2. Rome -- 5. The Archaic Period and the Republic -- 6. The Late Republic and the Principate -- 7. The Empire -- 8. The Metamorphoses of Sexual Ethics in the Ancient World.

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Antike Biseksualiteit Bisexualität Bisexualité -- Histoire. -- Grèce Bisexualité -- Histoire. -- Rome bisexuality Bisexuality -- History. -- Greece Bisexuality -- History. -- Rome Efebofilie Greece History Homoseksualiteit Homosexualität Homosexualité masculine -- Histoire. --… Homosexualité masculine -- Histoire. --… Klassieke oudheid male homosexuality Male homosexuality -- History. -- Greece Male homosexuality -- History. -- Rome Rome (Empire)