Blanshard

Sex

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With startling clarity, the classical world is invoked both as the home of sexual freedom and a haven for wanton acts of sexual perversity. Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity examines the profound impact that sexual fantasies about the classical world have had on modern Western culture, and looks at the ways in which various cultures have used classical erotica to locate and articulate their own erotic discourse. In this provocative new study, Alastair Blanshard offers rich insights how our perceptions of vice and love in antiquity continue to shape the roles of sex and sexuality in modern culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9781405122917
• ISBN-10: 1405122919
• Artikelnr.: 31702534

Autorenporträt

Alastair J. L. Blanshard is a senior lecturer in Classics & Ancient History at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Hercules: A Heroic Life (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations

Preface

Part I Roman Vice

1. Introduction

2. Naked Bodies

3. Obscene Texts

4. Erotic Rites

5. Imperial Biography

Part II Greek Love

6. Introduction

7. Greece

8. Rome and the West

9. Renaissance and Enlightenment

10. Nineteenth-Century and Beyond

11. Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Rezensionen

"The book is helpfully provocative and certainly helps toexplain the enduring appeal of Grecece and Rome in contemporary(erotic) culture." (INTAMS review - Journal for theStudy of Marriage & Spirituality, 18 January 2012)"Recommended. Graduate students/faculty." (Choice, 1 March 2011)

"This book is enjoyable and informative . . . it would be ofespecial interest to students of reception studies and the historyof sexuality, but there is also much material that is useful to theclassical scholar". (Bmcreview, 26 April 2011)

"It is because of the personal narratives - as well as thesophistication, wit and learning of the whole enterprise - thatthis book is highly recommended reading." (Times Higher Education,30 October 2010)"This is a sharply witty and provocative guide to ancient sexualtransgression - and to our modern fantasies, dreams and projectionsabout Greek love and Roman orgies." Simon Goldhill, CambridgeUniversity

"From George Washington unclad as a Roman prince, to thecult of Plato's Symposium in nineteenth-centuryEngland, to cinematographic fantasies of Roman orgies, AlastairBlanshard explores how the Moderns became fascinated with classicalsex, Roman vice and Greek love. Often ironic, never naive andalways a pleasure, this book reveals the enduring appeal of Greeceand Rome in our erotic culture."
Giulia Sissa, University of California at Los Angeles