Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (Paperback)

This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic with careful reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the existing visual and written record including literary, philosophical, and scientific documents. Even today, ancient female homosexuals are still too often seen in terms of a mythical, ethereal Sapphic love, or stereotyped as "Amazons" or courtesans. Boehringer's scholarly book replaces these cliches with rigorous, precise analysis of iconography and texts by Sappho, Plato, Ovid, Juvenal, and many other lyric poets, satirists, and astrological writers, in search of the prevailing norms, constraints, and possibilities for erotic desire. The portrait emerges of an ancient society to which today's sexual categories do not apply-a society "before sexuality"-where female homosexuality looks very different, but is nonetheless very real. Now available in English for the first time, Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome includes a preface by David Halperin. This book will be of value to students and scholars of ancient sexuality and gender, and to anyone interested in histories and theories of sexuality.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Sandra Boehringer
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	380
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-74476-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > Lesbian studies Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Promotions
LSN:	0-367-74476-7
Barcode:	9780367744762

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