Sexuality in Greek and Roman culture / Marilyn B. Skinner.

Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley Blackwell, an imprint of John Wiley & Sons, 2014.

xxxi, 426 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Second Edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of illustrations and maps -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chronological charts -- Maps -- Introduction: why ancient sexuality? : issues and approaches -- The Homeric age : epic sexuality -- The archaic age : symposium and initiation -- Late archaic athens : more than meets the eye -- Classical Athens : the politics of sex -- The early hellenistic period : turning inwards -- The later hellenistic period : the feminine mystique -- Early Rome : a tale of three cultures -- Republican and Augustan Rome : the soft embrace of Venus -- Elites in the empire : self and others -- The imperial populace : toward salvation? -- Afterword: the use of antiquity -- Glossary of terms -- Index.#