Sex : vice and love from antiquity to modernity / Alastair J.L. Blanshard.

  • Blanshard, Alastair
Date:
2010
  • Books

About this work

Description

This title examines the impact that sexual fantasies about the classical world have had on modern Western culture.

Publication/Creation

Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Physical description

xvi, 219 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Contents

Naked bodies -- Obscene texts -- Erotic rites -- Imperial biography -- Greece -- Rome and the West -- Renaissance and enlightenment -- Nineteenth century and beyond.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-204) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    TPJ /BLA
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781405122917
  • 1405122919