Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality is a controversial book that lays bare the
meanings Greeks gave to sex. Contrary to the romantic idealization of sex dominating our�…

This agenda-setting text has been fully revised in its second edition, with coverage extended
into the Christian era. It remains the most comprehensive and engaging introduction to the�…

Sex is beyond reason, and yet we constantly reason about it. So, too, did the peoples of
ancient Greece and Rome. But until recently there has been little discussion of their views�…

This second edition includes an updated review of sexuality in Greece and Rome, an
expanded bibliography and numerous new passages with original translations. This book�…

The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of
sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical�…

A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial
success--according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western�…

A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities presents a comprehensive collection of
original essays relating to aspects of gender and sexuality in the classical world. Views the�…

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�…

First published in 2001. From Ancient Greece, modern Western civilisation has derived
many of its artistic philosophical and pollical ideas. But, in certain areas of sexual tolerance�…

AS MEMBERS of human society, perhaps the most difficult task we i face daily is that of
touching one another—whether the touch is physical, moral, emotional, or imaginary�…