Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome

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ID23534759
AuthorsSandra Boehringer (0000-0002-7854-4126)
Year2021
Pages380
Publication date2021-07-27
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueFemale Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781003158080
OpenAlexW3185341404
ISBN9781003158080
Open LibraryOL33848739M
LanguageEN
Citations received8

This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic with careful reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the existing visual and written record including literary, philosophical, and scientific documents. Even today, ancient female homosexuals are still too often seen in terms of a mythical, ethereal Sapphic love, or stereotyped as "Amazons" or courtesans. Boehringer's scholarly book replaces these clichés with rigorous, precise analysis of iconography and texts by Sappho, Plato, Ovid, Juvenal, and many other lyric poets, satirists, and astrological writers, in search of the prevailing norms, constraints, and possibilities for erotic desire. The portrait emerges of an ancient society to which today's sexual categories do not apply—a society "before sexuality"—where female homosexuality looks very different, but is nonetheless very real. Now available in English for the first time, Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome includes a preface by David Halperin. This book will be of value to students and scholars of ancient sexuality and gender, and to anyone interested in histories and theories of sexuality.

Homosexuality · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Male Homosexuality · Men who have sex with men · Psychoanalysis · Syphilis · History · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Medicine · Psychology · Virology · Classical Civilization · Grèce · Greece · Homosexuality and literature · Lesbianism · Lesbianism in literature · Lesbianisme · Mythology · Rome · Sex in literature · Sexuality · Women

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