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Before Sexuality

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A dream wherein a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success–consistent with dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike brand new Western analysts, would not necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream in regards to the dreamer’s sexual psychology. Evidence of such shifts in point of view is leading scholars to reconsider in a number of creative ways the history of sexuality. In these fifteen original essays, eminent cultural historians and classicists not only discuss sex, but demonstrate how norms, practices, or even the very definitions of what counts as sexual activity have varied significantly through the years. Ancient Greece offers abundant evidence for a radically different set of sexual standards and behaviors from ours. Sex in ancient Hellenic culture assumed a number of social and political meanings, whereas the brand new development of a sex-centered model of personality now leads us to view sex as the important thing to understanding the individual. Drawing on both the Anglo-American tradition of cultural anthropology and the French tradition of les sciences humaines, these essays explore the iconography, politics, ethics, poetry, and medical practices that made sex in ancient Greece not a paradise of liberation but an exotic locale hardly recognizable to visitors from the brand new world. Along with the editors, the contributors to this volume are Peter Brown, Anne Carson, Franoise Frontisi-Ducroux, Maud W. Gleason, Ann Ellis Hanson, Franois Lissarrague, Nicole Loraux, Maurice Olender, S.R.F. Price, James Redfield, Giulia Sissa, and Jean-Pierre Vernant.

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