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Introduction -- Homer, Hesiod, and Greek lyric poetry -- Sexual roles and sexual rules in classical Athens -- Sexuality in Greek comedy -- Legal and illegal sex in ancient Greece -- Philosophical sex -- Greek pots and Greek sex -- Love and sex in Hellenistic poetry -- Rome and Roman sex -- Roman comic sex -- Legal and illegal sex in ancient Rome -- Roman poetry about love and sex -- Excursus : lesbians in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Roman sex on the walls and in gardens : artifacts and images -- Imperial sex : Nero and Seneca -- Sex in satire and invective poetry -- Epilogue

"This book examines the extant fragments of the archaic Greek poem known in antiquity as Hesiod's Catalogue of Women. Kirk Ormand shows that the poem should be read intertextually with other hexameter poetry from the eighth to sixth century BCE, especially Homer, Hesiod, and the Cyclic epics. Through literary interaction with these poems, the Catalogue reflects political and social tensions in the archaic period regarding the production of elite status. In particular, Ormand argues that the Catalogue reacts against the "middling ideology" that came to the fore during the archaic period in Greece, championing traditional aristocratic modes of status. Ormand maintains that the poem's presentation of the end of the heroic age is a reflection of a declining emphasis on nobility of birth in the structures of authority in the emerging sixth century polis"--

Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION One Hundred and Twenty-Five Years of Homosexuality -- CHAPTER ONE Vaseworld: Depiction and Description of Sex at Athens -- CHAPTER TWO Lesbians Are Not From Lesbos -- CHAPTER THREE Pederasty and the Popular Audience -- CHAPTER FOUR What Is "Greek Sex" For? -- CHAPTER FIVE Lusty Ladies in the Roman Imaginary -- CHAPTER SIX The Illusion of Sexual Identity in Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans 5 -- CHAPTER SEVEN Sculpting Antinous: Creations of the Ideal Companion -- EPILOGUE Not Fade Away -- Contributors -- Index Locorum -- General Index