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Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome
Mark Golden
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Description for Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome
Paperback. This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French. Editor(s): Golden, Mark; Toohey, Peter. Series: Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 3D; HBG; HBJD; HBLA; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 646.
This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French. For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all, focussed on how the roles and spheres of the sexes were divided. While men occupied the public sphere of the community, ranged through the Greek and Roman worlds and participated in politics, courts, theatre and sport, women kept to the home. Sex occupied a separate sphere, in scholarly terms restricted to specialists in ... Read more
This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French. For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all, focussed on how the roles and spheres of the sexes were divided. While men occupied the public sphere of the community, ranged through the Greek and Roman worlds and participated in politics, courts, theatre and sport, women kept to the home. Sex occupied a separate sphere, in scholarly terms restricted to specialists in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Series
Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748613205
SKU
V9780748613205
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About Mark Golden
Mark Golden is Professor of Classics, University of Winnipeg. He is the author of Children and Childhood in Classical Athens (1990) and Sport and Society in Ancient Greece (1998) and the co-editor (with Peter Toohey) of Inventing Ancient Culture: Historicism, Periodization and the Ancient World (1997). Peter Toohey is Professor and Head of Greek and Roman Studies at the ... Read more
Reviews for Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome
Usefully brings together essays not all of which are easily accessible ! more interesting still - breathtaking, in fact - is the way it shows how the field has developed in thirty years ! Overall, a book which is highly entertaining, instructive, accessible to teenagers, essential for students and extremely useful for teachers. Usefully brings together essays not all of ... Read more