Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome

Ormand, Kirk

ISBN 10: 1477311459 / ISBN 13: 9781477311455

Published by University of Texas Press, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1477311459
• ISBN 13: 9781477311455
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

“Comprehensive, reader-friendly, richly detailed, forthright, subtle, and very clear, Controlling Desires is the only handbook on ancient sexuality that works persistently to offset modern readers’ assumptions about sex and sexuality, to challenge the notion that sexuality is natural and universal, and to bring out the differences between ancient and modern discourses of sex—or, even, between ancient and modern experiences of desire. As such, it is a very helpful resource for students working on the history of sexuality in classical antiquity, because it shows how such a history might be possible and what is actually historical about sexuality.”
—David M. Halperin, University of Michigan, author of One Hundred Years of Homosexuality, Saint Foucault, and How to Do the History of Homosexuality

Since its first publication in 2009, Controlling Desires has been widely lauded as an accessible introduction to sexual practices, attitudes, and beliefs in the classical world. Treating Greece and Rome in separate sections, with ample cross-references and comparisons, Kirk Ormand presents a wide array of evidence from literary texts and visual arts, including two new chapters on Greek vase painting and Roman artifacts and wall paintings.

About the Author

Kirk Ormand is a professor of classics at Oberlin College. His books include Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy and Ancient Sex: New Essays.