Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome

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ID9362008
AuthorsMark Golden, Peter Toohey
Year2003
Pages352
Publication date2003-07-11
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1515/9781474468541
OpenAlexW4244541188
Open LibraryOL33793551M, OL26862798M
ISBN9781474468541, 9780748613199
LanguageEN
Citations received12

This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French. For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all, focussed on how the roles and spheres of the sexes were divided. While men occupied the public sphere of the community, ranged through the Greek and Roman worlds and participated in politics, courts, theatre and sport, women kept to the home. Sex occupied a separate sphere, in scholarly terms restricted to specialists in ancient medicine. And then the subjects were transformed, first by Sir Kenneth Dover, then by Michel Foucault. This book charts and illustrates the extraordinary evolution of scholarly investigation of a once hidden aspect of the ancient world. In doing so it sheds light on fascinating and curious aspects of ancient lives and thought

Ancient Greece · Ancient history · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Demography · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Greece · Rome · Sex · Sex role · Women

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