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Sex on Show - Seeing the Erotic in Greece and Rome (Hardcover)
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Sex on Show - Seeing the Erotic in Greece and Rome (Hardcover)
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The Greeks and Romans were not shy about sex. Drinking cups,
oil-lamps and walls were decorated with scenes of seduction and
sexual intercourse which make the modern viewer blush; models of
penises were worn around the neck or hung from doorways. In
classical Greece, statues of erect penises served as
boundary-stones and signposts. In Rome, marble satyrs and nymphs
grappled in gardens. How are we to make sense of this abundance of
sexual imagery? Were these images seductive, shocking, humorous?
Were they about sex or love? And what and how do we learn from
them? Sex on Show answers these questions by embracing ancient
attitudes to religion, politics, sex and gender to examine how the
ancient saw themselves and their world. Covering the sixth century
BC to the fourth century AD, as well as some Neoclassical art from
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Sex on Show uses detailed
visual analysis to bring new insights to Greek and Roman culture
and to the meaning of erotic imagery, past and present. This is not
simply a book about sexual practice or social history. It is a
visual history - about what it meant and still means to stare sex
in the face.
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