Ancient Sex: New Essays (Classical Memories/Modern Identitie)

Ancient Sex: New Essays presents groundbreaking work in a post-Foucauldian mode on sexuality, sexual identities, and gender identities in ancient Greece and Rome.

This comprehensive volume emphasizes the culturally specific discourse about sexual matters, highlighting the ways that ancient Greek and Roman texts and visual arts articulate sexual and gendered identities.

With essays by emerging and established scholars, this book provides a nuanced understanding of sexual discourses about women, the interaction between sexual identities and class status, gender as an unstable discursive category (even in antiquity), and the relationships between ancient and modern sexual categories.

Whether you're a scholar or simply interested in exploring the complexities of sexuality in ancient civilizations, Ancient Sex is a must-read.