Sex and society in Greco-Roman Egypt /
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 emotio...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2011, ©1996.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 indiv. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 238 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-232)-and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9780203821893 0203821890 0429236824 9780429236822 1283843374 9781283843379 1136760636 9781136760631 |