1990, ISBN: 9780691035383

Halperin, David M. & John J. Winkler & Froma I. Zeitlin. Evidence of such shifts in perspective is leading scholars to reconsider in a variety of creative ways the history of sexuality. B… More...

Halperin, David M. & John J. Winkler & Froma I. Zeitlin. Evidence of such shifts in perspective is leading scholars to reconsider in a variety of creative ways the history of sexuality. Before Sexuality The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World. Before Sexuality The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek WorldHalperin, David M. & John J. Winkler & Froma I. ZeitlinPublished by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1990. First edition, with number string to '1' to denote a first impression. Bound in the original publisher's hardcover boards, titled in copper to the spine. Spine ends with minor bumping, binding otherwise in good order. Internally the block is sound, the pages have some light age toning, but generally clean and tight. Jacket unclipped with some creasing to the edges. Vg/Good overall. A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success--according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream about the dreamer's sexual psychology. Evidence of such shifts in perspective is leading scholars to reconsider in a variety 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, and even the very definitions of what counts as sexual activity have varied significantly over time. Ancient Greece offers abundant evidence for a radically different set of sexual standards and behaviors from ours. Sex in ancient Hellenic culture assumed a variety of social and political meanings, whereas the modern development of a sex-centered model of personality now leads us to view sex as the key 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 modern world. In addition to 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.---------------------------------------------One of a number of similar items I am selling. Check out the other items in my eBay shop. 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1990, ISBN: 0691035385

[EAN: 9780691035383], Near Fine, [PU: Princeton University Press], ANCIENT GREECE HELLENISM SEXUAL DESIRE SEX CLASSICS ANTIQUITY, xix, 526pp.Illustrations in text. Essays by Nicole Loraux… More...

[EAN: 9780691035383], Near Fine, [PU: Princeton University Press], ANCIENT GREECE HELLENISM SEXUAL DESIRE SEX CLASSICS ANTIQUITY, xix, 526pp.Illustrations in text. Essays by Nicole Loraux, François Lissarrague, Maurice Olender, James Redfield, Anne Carson, John J. Winkler, Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux, David M. Halperin, Ann Ellis Hanson, Giulia Sissa, S.R.F. Price, Maud W. Gleason, Froma I. Zeitlin, Jean-Pierre Vernant, and Peter Brown. Teal cloth with gilt titles on spine, as new. Pictorial jacket with one small closed tear, else near-fine. Hinges strong, Textblock square, text clean., Books<

1990, ISBN: 9780691035383

Hardcover

Hardcover, Green cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 526pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text has some mild black ink underlining and margina… More...

Hardcover, Green cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 526pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text has some mild black ink underlining and marginal marks. DJ has mild shelfwear., Very Good in Near fine jacket, [ED: 1], Ancient History, Sexuality|Ancient History, Princeton, NJ, [PU: Princeton University Press]<

1990, ISBN: 9780691035383

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near fine. Green cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 526pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has… More...

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near fine. Green cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 526pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text has some mild black ink underlining and marginal marks. DJ has mild shelfwear., Princeton University Press, 1990, 3.5<

1990, ISBN: 0691035385

[EAN: 9780691035383], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Princeton University Press], Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.2… More...

[EAN: 9780691035383], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Princeton University Press], Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.25, Books<