Ancient Sex: New Essays

by Kirk Ormand

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 argument...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814252117
• ISBN13: 9780814252116
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"