Sex - Antiquity and Its Legacy

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Orrells is Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. He is author of Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity, co-editor of African Athena: New Agendas, and author of a number of essays and articles on classical antiquity in modern intellectual history. Klappentext Showing how ancient words and ideas have left a significant imprint on present-day ideas about sex, Daniel Orrells offers a bold new narrative of how the scientific study of sexuality came into being. Uncovering the intriguing story of how the obscene and erotic verse of Roman epigram and love poetry became the sanitised language of nineteenth-century sexual science, this divertingly readable book demonstrates how the reception of both Latin and Greek texts was central to the development of modern sexology and psychoanalysis.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Orrells
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9780195380934
• ISBN: 978-0-19-538093-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Ancients and Moderns; Ancients & Moderns
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity