About this title: Bisexuality was intrinsic to the cultures of the ancient world. In both Greece and Roman, sexual relationships between men were acknowledged, tolerated and widely celebrated in literature and art. For the Greeks and Romans, homosexuality was not an exclusive choice, but alternative to and sometime simultaneous with the love of a woman. Drawing on a range of sources - from legal texts, inscriptions and medical documents to poetry and philosophical literature - Eva Cantarella reconstructs the bisexual cultures of Athens and Rome and compares them. She explores the psychological, social and ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780300048445ISBN:0300048440
Description: Very Good in Very good jacket. No folds, marks; bright, fresh copy. 284 pp. Instrinsic to the ancient world, bisexuality was viewed much differently than today. Homosexuality was not always an exclusive choice, but sometimes in addition to a relationship with the opposite sex. Greeks used fellow citizens for partners, while Romans tended to choose defeated enemies or slaves. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780300048445ISBN:0300048440
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-8"-9" Tall. Brown cloth binding. Clean, no markings. xii, 284 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Dust jacket in protective mylar. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. Yale University Press, New Haven
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780300048445ISBN:0300048440
Description: As New in As New jacket. First edition in English. Hardcover. Very fine book in very fine dj. read more
Description: Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780300059243ISBN:0300059248
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, Spanish. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 296 p. Audience: General/trade. Very near fine with rub to spine end. Clean inside and out with no cover or spine creases. read more
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Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780300048445ISBN:0300048440
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine Price Sticker Intact jacket. 9 1/2 X 6 1/4. Pages are tight, bright & clean. Jacket in crystal-clear polyester protector. Binding very firm and straight. Boards peripheral edges and corners unworn. No apparent wear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780300048445ISBN:0300048440
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0300048440. Translated from the Italian by Cormac O Cuilleanain. A later printing. Very near fine in like dust jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven & London
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780300048445ISBN:0300048440
Description: Cloth. Former owner's name. Very good. xii+284pp., translated by Cormac O Cuilleanin, preface, notes, select bib., index. The author reconstructs and compares the bisexual cultures of Athens and Rome, She also provides analysis of the link between social class and homosexuality, the impact of homosexual relations on heterosexual ones and the love between women and the response of women to male homosexuality. read more
Description: Reader copy. Ex library paperback covered in plastic, usual library stamps & markings, cover a bit creased & sunned, minor shelf wear & marks to text blok edges, otherwise good clear text & binding sound, 1994 by Yale University Press, will despatch immediately. read more
"The scholarship in this work is refreshing on a topic that often gets muddled in colloquialisms and modern popular "facts" about the prevalence of homosexual behavior in ancient Greece and Rome. I found the work solid and, while not always unbiased, she certainly did not feel the need to blatantly bend data to fit her point of view as many people who do not feel confident that they are right do have a tendency toward. I would highly recommend it."
"This title is somewhat misleading - as author Eva Cantarella says in the introduction, our modern designations of homosexual, heterosexual, and bisexual simply didn't exist in ancient Greece and Rome. Thus, I fully understand her reasoning in not titling it 'Homosexuality in the Ancient World', but think that, since this book was not, in fact, a study of the way in which people in the mentioned time periods have demonstrated sexual feelings for both genders, but rather one finding the evidence that homosexual relationships were indeed a part of both cultures...I do think that the title ought to have been changed.
It's an odd book, feeling often to be doing little more than enumerating references without expounding on them in any significant way. Personally, I didn't find it satisfying in the least, even taking into account the often sparse records avaliable (particularly on female homo- and bisexuality). It gave me much useful information, but I didn't find it a substantiative study."
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