A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World

Mark Golden is Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg and author of Children and Childhood in Classical Athens; Sport and Society in Ancient Greece; Sport in the Ancient World from A to Z; and Greek Sport and Social Status. Peter Toohey is Professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary and is author of Reading Epic, Epic Lessons and Melancholy, Love and Time.

1 Introduction 1
Mark Golden (University of Winnipeg, Canada) and Peter Toohey (University of Calgary, Canada)

2 Heterosexuality
Susan Lape (University of Southern California, USA)

3 Homosexuality
Daniel Ogden (University of Exeter, UK)

4 Sexual Variations: Sexual Peculiarities of the Ancient Greeks and Romans
John Younger (University of Kansas, USA)

5 Sex, Religion, and the Law
Esther Eidinow (Newman University College, Birmingham, UK)

6 Sex, Medicine, and Disease
Helen King (University of Reading, UK)

7 Sex, Popular Beliefs, and Culture
Holt Parker (University of Cincinnati, USA)

8 Prostitution
Allison Glazebrook (Brock University, Canada)

9 Erotica: Visual Representation of Greek and Roman Sexual Culture
John R. Clarke (University of Texas, USA)

Notes

Bibliography

Contributors

Index of Ancient Sources

Subject Index