Title Bisexuality in the ancient world / Eva Cantarella ; translated by Cormac O'Cuilleanain.

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New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2002.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	306.765 C229B	Check Shelf
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	306.765 C229B c.2	Check Shelf

Edition	Second edition.
Description	xx, 286 pages ; 20 cm
Series	Yale Nota bene
	Yale Nota bene.
Note	Previous edition: 1992.
Contents	pt. 1. Greece -- 1. The Beginnings, the Greek Dark Age and the Archaic Period -- 2. The Classical Age -- 3. Homosexuality and Heterosexuality Compared in Philosophy and Literature -- 4. Women and Homosexuality -- pt. 2. Rome -- 5. The Archaic Period and the Republic -- 6. The Late Republic and the Principate -- 7. The Empire -- 8. The Metamorphoses of Sexual Ethics in the Ancient World.
Summary	"In this readable and thought-provoking history of bisexuality in the classical age, Eva Cantarella draws on the full range of sources - from legal texts, inscriptions, and medical documents to poetry and philosophical literature - to reconstruct and compare the bisexual cultures of Athens and Rome. This new edition incorporates a new preface and an updated bibliography."--Jacket.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-278) and index.
Note	The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. TXA
Language	Translated from the Spanish, Secondo natura.
Subject	Bisexuality -- Rome -- History -- To 1500.
	Bisexuality -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
	Male homosexuality -- Rome -- History -- To 1500.
	Male homosexuality -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
	Bisexuality. (OCoLC)fst00833344
	Male homosexuality. (OCoLC)fst01430687
	Greece. (OCoLC)fst01208380
	Rome (Empire) (OCoLC)fst01204885
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title	Secondo natura. English
ISBN	0300093020
	9780300093025

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