Bisexuality in the Ancient World; Second Edition

by Eva Cantarella; Translated by Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin

• ISBN13: 9780300093025
• ISBN10: 0300093020
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-03-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

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.

Author Biography

Eva Cantarella is professor in the Institute of Roman Law at the University of Milan.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	vii
Preface	xv
PART ONE Greece
The Beginning the Greek Dark Age and the Archaic Period	3	(14)
The Problem of Origins and Pederasty as a Form of Initiation	3	(5)
The Homeric Poems	8	(4)
The Age of Lyric Poetry: Solon, Alcaeus, Anacreon, Theognis, Ibycus and Pindar	12	(5)
The Classical Age	17	(37)
The Etiquette of Love. How to Conquer a Boy: The Social Rules of Courtship	17	(5)
How to Love a Boy: Erotic Manifestations in, the Pederasty Relationship	22	(5)
The Laws on pederasty. Two Stages, Two Cities: Athens and Beroea	27	(9)
The Age for Loving and the Age for Being Loved	36	(6)
Breaking the Rules on Age: Custom and Law	42	(6)
Male Prostitution: The Oration of Aeschines Against Timarchus	48	(6)
Homosexuality and Heterosexuality Compared in Philosophy and Literature	54	(24)
Socrates	54	(4)
Plato	58	(5)
Xenophone	63	(2)
Aristotle	65	(5)
Plutarch	70	(3)
The Greek Anthology, Achilles Tatius and Pseudo-Lucian	73	(5)
Women and Homosexuality	78	(19)
Love Between Women	78	(10)
Women and Male Homosexuality	88	(3)
Female Homosexuality Seen by Men	91	(6)
PART TWO Rome
The Archaic Period and the Republic	97	(23)
The Indigenous Features of Roman Homosexuality	97	(4)
Legitimate Forms of Love: Subjecting One's Own Slave, Paying a Prostitute	101	(3)
Prohibited Loves: Subjecting a Roman	104	(2)
The Lex Scatinia	106	(9)
The edict De adtemptata pudicitia	115	(5)
The Late Republic and the Principate	120	(35)
The poets: Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Ovid	120	(22)
The Lex lulia de adulteriis coercendis	142	(3)
Tradition and Innovation: The Carmina Priapea, graffiti, satire	145	(10)
The Empire	155	(32)
Practices	155	(1)
The Sexual Behaviour of the Powerful: Excuse or Example?	156	(8)
Women and Homosexuality	164	(9)
The Law: Constantius and Constans, Theodosius I, the Theodosian Code and the Corpus Iuris Civilis	173	(14)
The Metamorphoses of Sexual Ethics in the Ancient World	187	(24)
Metamorphoses Within Pagan Belief	187	(4)
The Judaeo-Christian Tradition	191	(20)
Conclusions	211	(12)
Notes	223	(46)
Abbreviations	269	(4)
Select Bibliography	273	(4)
Index	277