Ancient Sex: New Essays

by Kirk Ormand and Ruby Blondell

Ancient Sex: New Essays presents groundbreaking work in a post-Foucauldian mode on sexuality, sexual identities, and gender identities in ancient Greece and Rome. Since the production of Foucault's History of Sexuality, the field of classics has been caught in a recursive loop of argument regarding the existence--or lack thereof--of "sexuality" (particularly "homosexuality") as a meaningful cultural concept for ancient Greece and Rome. Much of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814212832
• ISBN13: 9780814212837
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 9.1"