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Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome Hardcover - 2021

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Author: Sandra Boehringer
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This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic with careful reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the existing visual and written record including literary, philosophical, and scientific documents.

Even today, ancient female homosexuals are still too often seen in terms of a mythical, ethereal Sapphic love, or stereotyped as "Amazons" or courtesans. Boehringer's scholarly book replaces these clichs with rigorous, precise analysis of iconography and texts by Sappho, Plato, Ovid, Juvenal, and many other lyric poets, satirists, and astrological writers, in search of the prevailing norms, constraints, and possibilities for erotic desire. The portrait emerges of an ancient society to which today's sexual categories do not apply-a society "before sexuality"-where female homosexuality looks very different, but is nonetheless very real.

Now available in English for the first time, Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome includes a preface by David Halperin. This book will be of value to students and scholars of ancient sexuality and gender, and to anyone interested in histories and theories of sexuality.

Details

Title Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome
Author Sandra Boehringer
Binding Hardcover
Pages 380
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Routledge
Date 2021-09-07
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
ISBN 9780367744786 / 0367744783
Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.94 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.39 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Sex & Gender: Lesbian
Library of Congress subjects Lesbianism - Greece - History, Lesbianism - Rome - History
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020055638
Dewey Decimal Code 306.766

About the author

Sandra Boehringer is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Strasbourg, France. She is the author of numerous articles on issues of gender and sexuality in the ancient world and the French translator of John Winkler and Maud Gleason. She has also co-edited several collective volumes, including Foucault, la sexualit, l'Antiquit, soon to be available in English from Routledge.