Sex and Society in Græco-Roman Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sex and Society in Græco-Roman Egypt write by Dominic Montserrat. This book was released on 1996. Sex and Society in Græco-Roman Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Sex & Society In Graeco-Roman
Sex & Society In Graeco-Roman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sex & Society In Graeco-Roman write by Montserrat. This book was released on 1996-01-06. Sex & Society In Graeco-Roman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1996. Sexuality in the ancient world has received much scholarly attention in the last few years, but authors have tended to confine themselves to the literary sources from Greece and Rome. There has also been a concentration on issues of social dominance and control at the expense of analysing the emotional and experiential aspects of sexual life, for which Egypt is a unique source. This is the first comprehensive study of sex in ancient Egypt. It considers sex in its broadest sense, analysing not only the sexual practices of individual people but also the ways in which sexual activity was indivisibly woven into the fabric of social and communal life. The main sources are the innumerable private documents written in Egypt during the Graeco-Roman period, and almost miraculously preserved by the dry climate. All types of documents are used, from magic spells for winning over a lover to judicial accounts of sexual crimes, many of them translated here into English for the first time. From these fragments, a world has been reconstructed in which real people move and function as sexual beings. This is an innovative addition to our knowledge of the ancient world, and has much to say about the construction of sexuality in the ancient world, about notions of the self and the sexual self, and about the ways that people inhabited their bodies.
Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt
Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt write by Jane Rowlandson. This book was released on 1998-11-26. Women and Society in Greek and Roman Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The period of Egyptian history from its rule by the Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty to its incorporation into the Roman and Byzantine empires has left a wealth of evidence for the lives of ordinary men and women. Texts (often personal letters) written on papyrus and other materials, objects of everyday use and funerary portraits have survived from the Graeco-Roman period of Egyptian history. But much of this unparalleled resource has been available only to specialists because of the difficulty of reading and interpreting it. Now eleven leading scholars in this field have collaborated to make available to students and other non-specialists a selection of over three hundred texts translated from Greek and Egyptian, as well as more than fifty illustrations, documenting the lives of women within this society, from queens to priestesses, property-owners to slave-girls, from birth through motherhood to death. Each item is accompanied by full explanatory notes and bibliographical references.
Sex and the Ancient City
Sex and the Ancient City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sex and the Ancient City write by Andreas Serafim. This book was released on 2022-05-09. Sex and the Ancient City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume aims to revisit, further explore and tease out the textual, but also non-textual sources in an attempt to reconstruct a clearer picture of a particular aspect of sexuality, i.e. sexual practices, in Greco-Roman antiquity. Sexual practices refers to a part of the overarching notion of sexuality: specifically, the acts of sexual intercourse, the erogenous capacities and genital functions of male and female body, and any other physical or biological actions that define one’s sexual identity or orientation. This volume aims to approach not simply the acts of sexual intercourse themselves, but also their legal, social, political, religious, medical, cultural/moral and interdisciplinary (e.g. emotional, performative) perspectives, as manifested in a range of both textual and non-textual evidence (i.e. architecture, iconography, epigraphy, etc.). The insights taken from the contributions to this volume would enable researchers across a range of disciplines – e.g. sex/gender studies, comparative literature, psychology and cognitive neuroscience – to use theoretical perspectives, methodologies and conceptual tools to frame the sprawling examination of aspects of sexuality in broad terms, or sexual practices in particular.
Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt
Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt write by Lise Manniche. This book was released on 2013-07-04. Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the book that introduced readers to the erotic life that flourished along the banks of the Nile at all levels of society. While much was known about the sexual life of the Greeks and Romans, this was the first to describe the rich and varied sexual life of the ancient Egyptians, which they described in words and pictures, many of which are reproduced here as photographs and facsimile drawings, drawn from sources such as sculptures, reliefs, paintings, sketches of erotic scenes and objects such as pottery and jewellery, as well as texts which vividly describe the passions of gods and men. Lise Manniche discusses all aspects of the intimate life of Egyptians including prostitution, concubines, adultery, homosexuality, intercourse with animals, necrophilia, incest and polygamy, from the Old Kingdom to the start of the Graeco-Roman period. First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
