Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome

This groundbreaking study explores ancient female homosexuality through rigorous analysis of iconography and texts, challenging stereotypes and revealing a society before sexuality where female homosexuality was real but looked different.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 380 pages
\n Publication date: 07 September 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, delves into the topic with meticulous reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing extensively on the existing visual and written record, including literary, philosophical, and scientific documents. Even today, ancient female homosexuals are still too often perceived in terms of a mythical, ethereal Sapphic love or stereotyped as Amazons or courtesans. Boehringer's scholarly book replaces these clichés 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.

\n Weight: 656g\n
Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367744762\n \n