Sexuality Homosexuality Prostitution & Love
Community-defined standards guide sexual behavior rendering practices normal or abnormal. In antiquity, these standards were somewhat different from ours today.
Books on Ancient Sexuality and Sex Roles
How do we compare with the ancient Greeks and Romans in our tolerance for sexual practices different from our own? How do the rights of our women compare? For whatever reason, we like to compare ourselves with our intellectual ancestors in the Greco-Roman world and hope to find ourselves coming out favorably. These books -- beyond the traditional Sarah Pomperoy and Eva Keuls -- look at the Greco-…
How do we compare with the ancient Greeks and Romans in our tolerance for sexual practices different from our own? How do the rights of our women compare? For whatever reason, we like to compare ourselves with our intellectual ancestors in the Greco-Roman world and hope to find ourselves coming out favorably. These books -- beyond the traditional Sarah Pomperoy and Eva Keuls -- look at the Greco-…
Books Covering Greco-Roman Sexuality and Sex Roles
Top books on ancient Greek and Roman sexuality, including homosexuality, prostitution, and the role of women in the society of ancient Greece and Rome.
Top books on ancient Greek and Roman sexuality, including homosexuality, prostitution, and the role of women in the society of ancient Greece and Rome.
Review - Faraone's Ancient Greek Love Magic
Christopher A. Faraone, looking at what we term "magical" practices of the ancient Greeks, finds answers to some of the society's riddles in Ancient Greek Love Magic.
Christopher A. Faraone, looking at what we term "magical" practices of the ancient Greeks, finds answers to some of the society's riddles in Ancient Greek Love Magic.
Review - Callimach's Lovers' Legends - The Gay Greek Myths
Review of Andrew Callimach's collection of gay, ancient Greek, heroic, lovers' tales.
Review of Andrew Callimach's collection of gay, ancient Greek, heroic, lovers' tales.
Review - Debra Hamel's Trying Neaira
Review of Debra Hamel's "Trying Neaira - The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece."
Review of Debra Hamel's "Trying Neaira - The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece."
Review - Simon Goldhill's Love, Sex, and Tragedy
"Why study classics?" is such an open-ended question that to get 321 pages that actually stick to the point -- more or less -- is pretty impressive. That Simon Goldhill does that while providing a survey of the classics and its impact on history, laced with many fascinating facts and truly illustrative photos is quite a feat.
"Why study classics?" is such an open-ended question that to get 321 pages that actually stick to the point -- more or less -- is pretty impressive. That Simon Goldhill does that while providing a survey of the classics and its impact on history, laced with many fascinating facts and truly illustrative photos is quite a feat.
Review - Stephen Bertman's Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome
Review of Stephen Bertman's Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome.
Review of Stephen Bertman's Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome.
Review - Kirk Ormand's Exchange and the Maiden
Kirk Ormand looks at life in Ancient Athens, as depicted in tragedy, to see underlying various relationships between men and women, a more important bonding between the men of the women's families.
Kirk Ormand looks at life in Ancient Athens, as depicted in tragedy, to see underlying various relationships between men and women, a more important bonding between the men of the women's families.
Platonic Love
Platonic Love, which is named for the Greek philosopher Plato, now means something quite different from what Plato meant.
Platonic Love, which is named for the Greek philosopher Plato, now means something quite different from what Plato meant.
Greek Winter Solstice Celebrations
In Greece there were winter solstice celebrations, including ones honoring the sea god Poseidon.
In Greece there were winter solstice celebrations, including ones honoring the sea god Poseidon.
Greek Eros and Philia Love Magic
The needs of men and women in the arena of love were different and required different types of magic; the men using eros magic, and the women philia or agape magic.
The needs of men and women in the arena of love were different and required different types of magic; the men using eros magic, and the women philia or agape magic.
Pornai - Greek Prostitutes - Pornai
Pornai is the ancient Greek word for prostitutes.
Pornai is the ancient Greek word for prostitutes.
Symposium
From Plato's Symposium. Aristophanes uses myth to explain why men seek men, why women seek women and why men and women seek each other.
From Plato's Symposium. Aristophanes uses myth to explain why men seek men, why women seek women and why men and women seek each other.
Moichos - An Ancient Greek Adulterer or Moichos
Moichos is the name for an ancient Greek adulterer.
Moichos is the name for an ancient Greek adulterer.
Ancient Greek Eroticism
From your Guide, a look at the ancient Greek emphasis on the beautiful and the good and the Greek male's sexual experiences.
From your Guide, a look at the ancient Greek emphasis on the beautiful and the good and the Greek male's sexual experiences.
Nothos (Nothoi) - Greek Bastard - Nothos (Nothoi)
Nothos in the singular and nothoi in the plural is the ancient Greek term for bastard.
Nothos in the singular and nothoi in the plural is the ancient Greek term for bastard.
Did Women Attend the Theater in the 18th Century?
By Marilyn A. Katz. Citizens' wives were cloistered and allowed out on only special occasions. Paper examines the question of whether the theater was included.
By Marilyn A. Katz. Citizens' wives were cloistered and allowed out on only special occasions. Paper examines the question of whether the theater was included.
Greek Couples
By Paul Halsall. Eight prominent homosexual liaisons and our sources.
By Paul Halsall. Eight prominent homosexual liaisons and our sources.
Homosexual Eros in Early Greece
Graduate student paper by Paul Halsall. Looks at homosexuality as a phenomenon all over Greece, restricted neither to the upper class nor to the publicly sanctioned inter-crural acts depicted on vases.
Graduate student paper by Paul Halsall. Looks at homosexuality as a phenomenon all over Greece, restricted neither to the upper class nor to the publicly sanctioned inter-crural acts depicted on vases.
Ioläus: An Anthology Of Friendship (1908)
By Edward Carpenter. Customs connected with fraternity in arms.
By Edward Carpenter. Customs connected with fraternity in arms.
Pederasty
Class notes on the Athenian origins of pederasty with Solon. Explains that a key difference between the U.S. and ancient Athens is that they had an aristocracy, and perderasts, the last minority Americans can still discriminate against, were from that privileged little class.
Class notes on the Athenian origins of pederasty with Solon. Explains that a key difference between the U.S. and ancient Athens is that they had an aristocracy, and perderasts, the last minority Americans can still discriminate against, were from that privileged little class.
People with a history
Chapter on Ancient Greece which is discounted as a homosexual arcadia.
Chapter on Ancient Greece which is discounted as a homosexual arcadia.
Prostitutes
About Athens 4th century B.C. Prostitutes use all sorts of artifices to appear more desirable than they really are.
About Athens 4th century B.C. Prostitutes use all sorts of artifices to appear more desirable than they really are.
Roman Sex
BMCR review of John R. Clarke, Roman Sex 100 BC - AD 250, a coffee table book with illustrations and sections on lovemaking at home, gay and bisexuality, women's relatively liberated sexuality in Rome vs. Greece, and erotic art.
BMCR review of John R. Clarke, Roman Sex 100 BC - AD 250, a coffee table book with illustrations and sections on lovemaking at home, gay and bisexuality, women's relatively liberated sexuality in Rome vs. Greece, and erotic art.
Homosexuality in Greece and Rome. A Sourcebook
BMCR review by J.L. Butrica of Thomas K. Hubbard (ed.), Homosexuality in Greece and Rome. A Sourcebook of Basic Documents.
BMCR review by J.L. Butrica of Thomas K. Hubbard (ed.), Homosexuality in Greece and Rome. A Sourcebook of Basic Documents.