Foucault's Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality

by Simon Goldhill

Book Overview

The sexy, witty and often bizarre novels, poetry and dialogues of the first centuries of this era (works such as Longus' Daphnis and Chloe, Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Cleitophon and Plutarch's Amatorius) were being composed at the same time as fundamental ideas about the body, gender and sexuality were being set in place with the rise of Christianity and the Church to dominate the pagan world. Modern writers on the history of sexuality have largely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521479347
• ISBN13: 9780521479349
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"