For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world if theytook place at all focused on how the roles and spheres of the sexes weredivided. W... » 

For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world if theytook place at all focused on how the roles and spheres of the sexes weredivided. While men occupied the public sphere of the community ranged throughthe Greek and Roman worlds and participated in politics courts theatre andsport women kept to the home. Sex occupied a separate sphere in scholarlyterms restricted to specialists in ancient medicine. And then the subjects weretransformed first by Sir Kenneth Dover then by Michel Foucault.This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviorand gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newlytranslated from German and French. The volume charts the extraordinaryevolution of scholarly investigation of a once hidden aspect of the ancientworld. In doing so it sheds light on fascinating and curious aspects of ancientlives and thought. «