Community-defined standards guide sexual behavior rendering practices normal or abnormal. In antiquity, these standards were somewhat different from ours today.
Hetaira is a type of Greek courtesan or prostitute.
"A curse is inscribed in Greek on a lead tablet and part of it reads: 'May your penis hurt when you make love'," Athens Archaeological School head Pierre Aubert told the English language Cyprus Weekly
Top books on ancient Greek and Roman sexuality, including homosexuality, prostitution, and the role of women in the society of ancient Greece and Rome.
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.
Review of Stephen Bertman's Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome.
"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 of Debra Hamel's "Trying Neaira - The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece."
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 of Andrew Callimach's collection of gay, ancient Greek, heroic, lovers' tales.
Platonic Love, which is named for the Greek philosopher Plato, now means something quite different from what Plato meant.
In Greece there were winter solstice celebrations, including ones honoring the sea god Poseidon.
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 is the ancient Greek word for prostitutes.
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 Paul Halsall. Eight prominent homosexual liaisons and our sources.
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.
By Edward Carpenter. Customs connected with fraternity in arms.
Chapter on Ancient Greece, which is discounted as a homosexual arcadia.
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 is the name for an ancient Greek adulterer.
From your Guide, a look at the ancient Greek emphasis on the beautiful and the good and the Greek male's sexual experiences.
Nothos in the singular and nothoi in the plural is the ancient Greek term for bastard.
About Athens 4th century B.C. Prostitutes use all sorts of artifices to appear more desirable than they really are.
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 by J.L. Butrica of Thomas K. Hubbard (ed.),
Homosexuality in Greece and Rome. A Sourcebook of Basic Documents.
