| Description |
x, 343 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-332) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : quod multo fit in graecia / Marilyn B. Skinner -- Invading the Roman body : manliness and impenetrability in Roman thought / Jonathan Walters -- The teratogenic grid / Holt N. Parker -- Unspeakable professions : public performance and prostitution in ancient Rome / Catharine Edwards -- Dining deviants in Roman political invective / Anthony Corbeill -- Ego mulier : the construction of male sexuality in Catullus / Marilyn B. Skinner -- The erotics of amicitia : readings in Tibullus, Propertius, and Horace / Ellen Oliensis -- Reading broken skin : violence in Roman elegy / David Fredrick -- Pliny's brassiere / Amy Richlin -- Female desire and the discourse of empire : Tacitus's Messalina / Sandra R. Joshel -- Female homoeroticism and the denial of Roman reality in Latin literature / Judith P. Hallett -- The lover's voice in Heroides 15 : or, why is Sappho a man? / Pamela Gordon -- Tandem venit armor : a Roman woman speaks of love / Alison Keith. |
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Sex customs -- Rome -- History.
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Sex in literature.
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Classical literature.
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Feminist criticism.
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Rome -- In literature.
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Rome -- History.
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Rome -- Social life and customs.
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| Added Author |
Hallett, Judith P., 1944-
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Skinner, Marilyn B.
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| ISBN |
0691011796 alkaline paper |
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0691011788 paperback alkaline paper |
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