Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Note on Ancient Greek Words, Names, and Titles -- Chapter 1 Feminist Theory -- In the Beginning -- Manifestations of Gender -- Greek and Roman: Contrasts and Consequences -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Studies of Ancient Masculinity -- Introduction -- Greece -- Rome -- Conclusion -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 3 Desirability and the Body -- Artists and the Ideal Human Figure -- Beauty, Desire, and the Viewer -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 4 Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Discipline of Classics -- The Shifting Ground of Foucault's History -- Volume 1: Sexuality as a Product of Discourse -- Volumes 2 and 3: The Turn to Problematization -- Classicists Discipline Foucault -- Feminist classicists -- Love, not sex -- Where Now? -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Greek and Roman Marriage -- Greek Marriage in Archaic and Classical Greece -- Greek Marriage in Hellenistic Times -- Roman Marriage -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 6 Prostitution: Controversies and New Approaches -- Introduction: Problems of Evidence -- Athens -- Repression of procuring and hubris -- Contracts for prostitution -- Ban on political participation -- Rome -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Ancient Pederasty: An Introduction -- Introduction -- Sources of Evidence -- Homer and prehistory -- Lyric and elegiac poetry -- Athenian vase painting -- Harmodios and Aristogeiton -- The Athenian theater -- Socrates and his followers -- Court cases -- Hellenistic and imperial sources -- Rome -- Questions of Interpretation -- Questions of Interpretation -- Notes -- References.

Chapter 8 Peer Homosexuality -- Adolescent Love -- Lesbian Love -- Adult Love -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 Female Homoeroticism -- Introduction: Female Homosexuality Is a Heuristic Category -- Greece: Passionate Eros or Indifference -- Rome and Graeco-Roman Culture: Satire, Rejection and Humor -- Conclusion: Female Homoeroticism Reveals Ancient Gender Systems -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 10 From Ascesis to Sexual Renunciation -- Introduction -- Three Asexual Goddesses -- Sexual Purity in Greek Religion -- The Strange Case of the Euripidean Hippolytus -- Sexual Renunciation in Late Ancient Christian Writings: Ascetic Foundations -- Unveiled Virgins and Unmanned Ascetics: Late Ancient Developments -- Motivations and Aspirations: Virginity's Just Deserts -- Conclusion -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11 Sexual Abuse and Sexual Rights: Slaves' Erotic Experience at~Athens and Rome -- Athens -- Slaves' sexual exploitation, slaves' sexual protection -- "Home, sweet home?" Prostitution as domestic labor -- Rome -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 12 Sumposion -- Introduction -- Sumposion and City -- Pederasty -- Prostitution -- Conclusion -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 13 Sexuality in Greek and Roman Religion -- Thesmophoria and Bona Dea -- The Phallus and the Vestal -- Gods of Desire -- Desiring Gods -- Sexuality and Ecstatic Experience -- Sexuality and the Mysteries -- The Scandal of Sacred Prostitution -- Conclusion -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 14 Sexuality in Greek and Roman Military Contexts -- At Home -- On Duty Abroad -- Sex between Soldiers -- Greece -- Rome -- Captives -- Greece -- Rome -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References.

Chapter 15 Athletics and Sexuality -- The Introduction of Nudity and the Development of the Greek Games -- Nudity and Erotic Spectatorship -- Gymnasia and Palaestrae as the Settings for Pederastic Socialization and Sponsorship -- Female Athletics -- Sexual Health and Abstinence -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 16 Phusis and Sensuality: Knowing the Body in Greek Erotic Culture -- The Focus on the Body -- Doing Justice to Michel Foucault -- History of Sexuality: A New Discipline and Its Canon -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 17 Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered: Erotic Magic in the Greco-Roman World -- Introduction -- Technical Difficulties -- Restraining Spells -- Retaining Spells -- Obtaining Spells -- Imagining Erotic Magic -- Conclusions -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 18 Dream Interpretation, Physiognomy, Body Divination -- Dream Interpretation -- Physiognomy -- Body Divination -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 19 Sex in Ancient Greek and Roman Epic -- Introduction -- Sex before the War -- Sex and the Iliadic Man -- Odyssean Sex -- Sex and Empire: The Aeneid -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 20 Erotic Lyric -- Lyric Texts and Contexts -- Sappho and Her "Circle" -- Sappho Outside the "Circle" -- "Theognis" and the sumposion -- Anacreon: Performing Sexuality in the Tyrant's sumposion -- Archaic Eros in Later Worlds -- Performing Sexuality in Rome -- Inverting Sexuality -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 21 Sexuality in the Extant Greek and Roman Tragedies -- Introduction -- Plays Focusing on the House of Atreus -- Aeschylus -- Sophocles -- Euripides -- Seneca -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References.

Chapter 22 The Body Politic: Sexuality in Greek and Roman Comedy and Mime -- The Perception of Ancient Sexuality -- Defining Sexuality and Gender, Modern and Ancient -- Twentieth-Century Scholarship and the Legacy of Dover -- Current Scholarship on Ancient Sexuality: A New Perspective -- Greek Comedy -- Greek Mime -- Roman Comedy -- Roman Mime -- Conclusion -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 23 Greco-Roman Satirical Poetry -- Greek Iambos -- Priapus and Roman Poetry of the Obscene -- Hexameter Satire: The Garden of Diatribe and Diversion -- Satiric Interventions -- Where Satire Stands -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 24 Greek and Roman Ethnosexuality -- Evidence and Interpretations -- Sex in Public and the Sharing of Women -- The Lustful Barbarian? -- Sexual Mutilation -- Sex and Power -- Conclusion -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 25 Platonic and Roman Influence on Stoic and Epicurean Sexual Ethics -- Plato's Ambivalent Legacy -- Stoicism -- Epicureanism -- Philosophers' Finances -- Appendix: Aristotle -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 26 Sexual Rhetoric: From Athens to Rome -- The Art of Persuasion -- Speaking of Men -- Speaking of Women -- Body Talk -- Conclusion -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 27 Biography -- Lives and Sex Lives -- Gods and Mortals -- Suetonius and his Caesars -- Flesh and Marble -- Lessons in Love -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 28 Epistolography -- Introduction: Epistolarity -- Love Letters -- Erotic Narratives in Epistolary Form -- The Erotics of Seneca's Moral Epistles -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 29 Paths of Love: Age and Gender Dynamics in the Erotic Novel -- Five Novels -- Lovers in Balance.

The Homoerotic Presence: Pederasty, Pseudopederasty, and the Role of Age -- Male Ages, 1: The Evidentiary Setting -- Male Ages, 2: The Witness of the Novels -- Chaireas and Kallirhoe -- Habrokomes and Anthia -- Leukippe and Kleitophon -- Daphnis and Chloe -- Satyrica -- Peregrinus amor (Sat. 80.8) -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 30 Sexual Themes in Greek and Latin Graffiti -- Introduction -- Issues of Interpretation -- Themes -- Praising, proclaiming, boasting -- Insulting and exposing -- Sex for sale -- Voices -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 31 Sexuality and Visual Representation -- Modern Constructions of Ancient Sexual Representation -- Archaic and Classical Greece -- The Hellenistic World -- The Augustan and Early Julio-Claudian Periods (27 BCE-30 CE) -- Late Julio-Claudian and Flavian Periods (30-96 CE) -- Visual Humor as Index of Sexual Acculturation -- The Apotropaic Phallus -- The Embodied Phallus: Unbecomingness and Salubrious Laughter -- Sexual Humor in the Rhˆone Valley Ceramics (70-250 CE) -- Balancing Acts: Evidence for Sex-Shows? -- The Third Century and Beyond -- Guide to Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 32 Sexuality in Jewish Writings from 200 BCE to 200 CE -- Introduction -- Speaking (or Not) of Sex -- Sex with the (Im)proper Stranger -- Sexual Apologetics and the Advance of Rome -- Philo: Good and Bad Sex in the Philosophy of Moses -- Josephus: After the War -- Conclusions -- Guide to Further Reading -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 33 Early Christian Sexuality -- Pre-Christian Theology and Sexuality -- Biblical Monolatry and Its Sexual Rules -- Goddesses: Their Sexual Import and Biblical Danger -- Philo's Safeguard: Keeping Sex Strictly Procreative in the Lord -- Paul's Revolutionary Reworking of the Biblical Sexual Rules.

Patristic Sexual Restrictions and Their Selective Adaptation of Philo's Safeguard.