Sex and the Ancient City: Sex and Sexual Practices in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Sex and the Ancient City

Sex and Sexual Practices in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Edited by: Andreas Serafim , George Kazantzidis and Kyriakos Demetriou

Volume 126 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110695793

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About this book

This volume aims to revisit, further explore and tease out the textual, but also non-textual sources in an attempt to reconstruct a clearer picture of a particular aspect of sexuality, i.e. sexual practices, in Greco-Roman antiquity. Sexual practices refers to a part of the overarching notion of sexuality: specifically, the acts of sexual intercourse, the erogenous capacities and genital functions of male and female body, and any other physical or biological actions that define one’s sexual identity or orientation. This volume aims to approach not simply the acts of sexual intercourse themselves, but also their legal, social, political, religious, medical, cultural/moral and interdisciplinary (e.g. emotional, performative) perspectives, as manifested in a range of both textual and non-textual evidence (i.e. architecture, iconography, epigraphy, etc.). The insights taken from the contributions to this volume would enable researchers across a range of disciplines – e.g. sex/gender studies, comparative literature, psychology and cognitive neuroscience – to use theoretical perspectives, methodologies and conceptual tools to frame the sprawling examination of aspects of sexuality in broad terms, or sexual practices in particular.

Author / Editor information

A. Serafim, Academy of Athens, G. Kazantzidis, University of Patras, and K. Demetriou, University of Cyprus.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Sex, Sexuality, Sexual Intercourse and Gender: The Terms and Contexts of the Volume Andreas Serafim, George Kazantzidis and Kyriakos Demetriou Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Part I: Aspects of Homoeroticism
Dover’s “Pseudo-sexuality” and the Athenian Laws on Male Prostitutes in Politics Konstantinos Kapparis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Group Sex, Exhibitionism/Voyeurism and Male Homosociality Thomas K. Hubbard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Making the Body Speak: The (Homo)Sexual Dimensions of Sneezing in Ancient Greek Literature Andreas Serafim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
“Fell in Love with an Anus”: Sexual Fantasies for Young Male Bodies and the Pederastic Gaze in Rhianus’ Epigrams Manolis Spanakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Silencing Female Intimacies: Sexual Practices, Silence and Cultural Assumptions in Lucian, Dial. Meretr. 5 Andreas Fountoulakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Part II: Sex and Medicine
Clitoridectomy in Ancient Greco-Roman Medicine and the Definition of Sexual Intercourse Chiara Thumiger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Sex and Epilepsy: Seizures and Fluids in Greek Medical Imagination George Kazantzidis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Part III: The Use and Abuse of Sex Objects
Some Dirty Thoughts about Chairs and Stools: Iconography of Erotic Foreplay Bartłomiej Bednarek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Olive Oil, Dildos and Sandals: Greek Sex Toys Reassessed Emma Stafford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Statues as Sex Objects Regina Höschele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Having Sex with Statues: Some Cases of Agalmatophilia in Latin Poetry Charilaos N. Michalopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Part IV: Sexual Liminality
Hephaistos Among the Satyrs: Semen, Ejaculation and Autochthony in Greek Culture Jeremy McInerney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Human-animal Sex in Ancient Greece José Malheiro Magalhães Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
The Womb Inside the Male Member: A Lucianic Twist Catalina Popescu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Part V: Sex and Disgust
Sex and Disgust in Martial’s Epigrams Gabriel Evangelou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Part VI: The Scripts of Sexuality: Drama, Novel, Papyri and Later Texts
To Voice the Physical: Sex and the Soil in Aeschylus Nikos Manousakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Seminal Figures: Aristophanes and the Tradition of Sexual Imagery Dimitrios Kanellakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
The Maiden who Knew Nothing about Sex: A Scabrous Theme in Novella and Comedy Ioannis M. Konstantakos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
Sex and Abuse in Unhappy Marriages in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus: The Case of Two Women’s Narratives Preserved on Papyrus Amphilochios Papathomas and Aikaterini Koroli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	471
“Asexuality” in the Greek Papyrus Letters Rosalia Hatzilambrou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	487
From Plato’s Symposium to Methodius’ and Late Antique Hagiography: “Female” Readings of Male Sexuality Stephanos Efthymiadis and Charis Messis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	509
Notes on Editors and Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	529
Index Locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	531
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	535

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, students, and interested readers in Classics, Ancient History, and sexuality in antiquity
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 538
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 25
- Coloured Illustrations: 25
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Sexual practices; body; male; female.

eBook

Published: May 9, 2022
ISBN: 9783110695793

Hardcover

Published: May 23, 2022
ISBN: 9783110695779