Princeton University Press. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691002215 9780691002217 [US]

Princeton University Press. Very Good. Date: 1990. Softcover. 0691002215 . Some edgewear with laminate lifting to 1 corner. ; 552 pages; A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success--according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream about the dreamer's sexual psychology. Evidence of such shifts in perspective is leading scholars to reconsider in a variety of creative ways the history of sexuality. In these fifteen original essays, eminent cultural historians and classicists not only discuss sex, but demonstrate how norms, practices, and even the very definitions of what counts as sexual activity have varied significantly over time. Ancient Greece offers abundant evidence for a radically different set of sexual standards and behaviors from ours. Sex in ancient Hellenic culture assumed a variety of social and political meanings, whereas the modern development of a sex-centered model of personality now leads us to view sex as the key to understanding the individual. Drawing on both the Anglo-American tradition of cultural anthropology and the French tradition of les sciences humaines, these essays explore the iconography, politics, ethics, poetry, and medical practices that made sex in ancient Greece not a paradise of liberation but an exotic locale hardly recognizable to visitors from the modern world. In ...

Princeton University Press, Date: 1991-08-12. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1991. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691002215 9780691002217 [US]

ISBN10: 0691002215, ISBN13: 9780691002217, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Features fifteen original essays where eminent cultural historians and classicists not only discuss sex, but demonstrate how norms, practices, and even the very definitions of what counts as sexual activity have varied significantly over time.
[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1991]