Bisexuality in the Ancient World

by Cantarella, Eva; O Cuilleanain, Cormac

• ISBN13: 9780300048445
• ISBN10: 0300048440
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-10-01
• Publisher: Yale Univ Pr

Summary

In this readable and thought-provoking history of bisexuality in the classical age, Eva Cantarella draws on the full range of sources -- from legal texts, inscriptions, and medical documents to poetry and philosophical literature -- to reconstruct and compare the bisexual cultures of Athens and Rome.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	p. vii
Preface	p. xv
Greece
The Beginnings, the Greek Dark Age and the Archaic Period	p. 3
The Problem of Origins and Pederasty as a Form of Initiation	p. 3
The Homeric Poems	p. 8
The Age of Lyric Poetry: Solon, Alcaeus, Anacreon, Theognis, Ibycus and Pindar	p. 12
The Classical Age	p. 17
The Etiquette of Love. How to Conquer a Boy: The Social Rules of Courtship	p. 17
How to Love a Boy: Erotic Manifestations in the Pederastic Relationship	p. 22
The Laws on Pederasty. Two Stages, Two Cities: Athens and Beroea	p. 27
The Age for Loving and the Age for Being Loved	p. 36
Breaking the Rules on Age: Custom and Law	p. 42
Male Prostitution: The Oration of Aeschines Against Timarchus	p. 48
Homosexuality and Heterosexuality Compared in Philosophy and Literature	p. 54
Socrates	p. 54
Plato	p. 58
Xenophone	p. 63
Aristotle	p. 65
Plutarch	p. 70
The Greek Anthology, Achilles Tatius and Pseudo-Lucian	p. 73
Women and Homosexuality	p. 78
Love Between Women	p. 78
Women and Male Homosexuality	p. 88
Female Homosexuality Seen by Men	p. 91
Rome
The Archaic Period and the Republic	p. 97
The Indigenous Features of Roman Homosexuality	p. 97
Legitimate Forms of Love: Subjecting One's Own Slave, Paying a Prostitute	p. 101
Prohibited Loves: Subjecting a Roman	p. 104
The Lex Scatinia	p. 106
The edict De adtemptata pudicitia	p. 115
The Late Republic and the Principate	p. 120
The poets: Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Ovid	p. 120
The Lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis	p. 142
Tradition and Innovation: The Carmina Priapea, graffiti, satire	p. 145
The Empire	p. 155
Practices	p. 155
The Sexual Behaviour of the Powerful: Excuse or Example?	p. 156
Women and Homosexuality	p. 164
The Law: Constantius and Constans, Theodosius I, the Theodosian Code and the Corpus Iuris Civilis	p. 173
The Metamorphoses of Sexual Ethics in the Ancient World	p. 187
Metamorphoses Within Pagan Belief	p. 187
The Judaeo-Christian Tradition	p. 191
Conclusions	p. 211
Notes	p. 223
Abbreviations	p. 269
Select Bibliography	p. 273
Index	p. 277
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