Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity (Ideologies of Desire)
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (582 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195125053 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Williams is Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and in 2006 he was awarded Brooklyn College's Leonard and Claire Tow Endowed Professorship. Craig A. He is the author of the acclaimed Roman Homosexuality, 2nd edition (2010), an introduction and commentary in Martial: Epigrams, Book Two (2004) and numerous articles and reviews on Latin literature and Roman culture
"an important and ground-breaking study."--Choice"It has become increasingly apparent that although a very wide range of sexual activity appears in Latin literature, the Romans did not classify people as 'homosexuals' or 'heterosexuals,' and that when moral judgement was passed on a sexual act it was not the identity or difference of sex in the participants that mattered--it was taken for granted that the lust of a 'real man' was aroused by young, smooth bodies--but their relative civic status. It is sophisticated, elegantly written, offers a wealth of examples, and explains with exemplary clarity just how Roman views of sex and identity differed from our own. Roman Homosexuality is a significant contribution to the historical and cross-
to the second century A.D.--above all from such literary texts as courtroom speeches, love poetry, philosophy, epigram, and history, but also graffiti and other inscriptions as well as artistic artifacts--and uses that evidence to reconstruct the contexts within which Roman texts were created and had their meaning. It gathers a wide range of evidence from the second century B.C. The book takes as its starting point the thesis that in order to understand the Roman material, we must make the effort to set aside any preconceptions we might have regarding sexuality, masculinity, and effeminacy.Williams' book argues in detail that for the writers and readers of Roman texts, the important distinctions were drawn not between homosexual and heterosexual, but between free and slave, dominant and subordinate, masculin and effeminate as conce
A Customer said All information needed.. I have found this book, when added with K.J. Dover's Greek Homosexuality, to offer me all the information I needed on the subject of homosexuality in Classical Antiquity. Williams does not make enough, perhaps, of the fact that the Romans' low estimate o. Anonymous said The New Standard Reference. Williams has clearly written the best exposition of male-male sex and erotics in ancient Rome to date--no contest. He is particularly good at refuting the anthropologically more naive claims of "(pathic) homosexual subcultures" and "homosexuals" (as a cu. "STODGY & RAMBLING" according to anonymous. Ancient Rome merits a contemporary investigation of its attitudes towards sexuality and homosexuality but sadly Craig A Williams book "Roman Homosexuality" is not capable of the task. Apart from the dull prose and paucity of illustrations. A pathetic eig