Beschreibung:
This book offers a comprehensive account of ancient Greek sexuality free of currently fashionable theoretical jargon and pretensions. It is about what the literary remains from 700-100 b.c. say about sex, for it is those remains that most influenced subsequent Western culture.
Preface -- A Note on Translation -- Introduction: "Custom the King of All" -- The "Controlless Core" -- The "Tyrant of Gods and Men" -- The Golden Child of the Bloody Foam -- Pandora's "Foul Tribe of Women" -- Monsters of Appetite -- The "Fancied Sway" -- Taming the Beasts -- Erotic Technology -- Wives and the Order of the House -- Eros the Pedagogue -- Conclusion: Dissing Eros and Aphrodite -- Abbreviations