Sex Antiquity and Its Legacy |
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Author:
| Orrells, Dan |
Series title: | Ancients and Moderns Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-538093-4 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2015 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $27.99 |
Book Description:
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Showing how ancient words and ideas have left a significant imprint on present-day ideas about sex, Daniel Orrells offers a bold new narrative of how the scientific study of sexuality came into being. Uncovering the intriguing story of how the obscene and erotic verse of Roman epigram and love poetry became the sanitised language of nineteenth-century sexual science, this divertingly readable book demonstrates how the reception of both Latin and Greek texts was central to the...
More DescriptionShowing how ancient words and ideas have left a significant imprint on present-day ideas about sex, Daniel Orrells offers a bold new narrative of how the scientific study of sexuality came into being. Uncovering the intriguing story of how the obscene and erotic verse of Roman epigram and love poetry became the sanitised language of nineteenth-century sexual science, this divertingly readable book demonstrates how the reception of both Latin and Greek texts was central to the development of modern sexology and psychoanalysis.