Human-animal Sex in Ancient Greece

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Figures XI
5. Sex, Sexuality, Sexual Intercourse and Gender: The Terms and Contexts of the Volume 1
6. Part I: Aspects of Homoeroticism
7. Dover’s “Pseudo-sexuality” and the Athenian Laws on Male Prostitutes in Politics 19
8. Group Sex, Exhibitionism/Voyeurism and Male Homosociality 43
9. Making the Body Speak: The (Homo)Sexual Dimensions of Sneezing in Ancient Greek Literature 71
10. “Fell in Love with an Anus”: Sexual Fantasies for Young Male Bodies and the Pederastic Gaze in Rhianus’ Epigrams 89
11. Silencing Female Intimacies: Sexual Practices, Silence and Cultural Assumptions in Lucian, Dial. Meretr. 5 111
12. Part II: Sex and Medicine
13. Clitoridectomy in Ancient Greco-Roman Medicine and the Definition of Sexual Intercourse 141
14. Sex and Epilepsy: Seizures and Fluids in Greek Medical Imagination 173
15. Part III: The Use and Abuse of Sex Objects
16. Some Dirty Thoughts about Chairs and Stools: Iconography of Erotic Foreplay 193
17. Olive Oil, Dildos and Sandals: Greek Sex Toys Reassessed 221
18. Statues as Sex Objects 245
19. Having Sex with Statues: Some Cases of Agalmatophilia in Latin Poetry 263
20. Part IV: Sexual Liminality
21. Hephaistos Among the Satyrs: Semen, Ejaculation and Autochthony in Greek Culture 285
22. Human-animal Sex in Ancient Greece 307
23. The Womb Inside the Male Member: A Lucianic Twist 323
24. Part V: Sex and Disgust
25. Sex and Disgust in Martial’s Epigrams 351
26. Part VI: The Scripts of Sexuality: Drama, Novel, Papyri and Later Texts
27. To Voice the Physical: Sex and the Soil in Aeschylus 377
28. Seminal Figures: Aristophanes and the Tradition of Sexual Imagery 425
29. The Maiden who Knew Nothing about Sex: A Scabrous Theme in Novella and Comedy 445
30. Sex and Abuse in Unhappy Marriages in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus: The Case of Two Women’s Narratives Preserved on Papyrus 471
31. “Asexuality” in the Greek Papyrus Letters 487
32. From Plato’s Symposium to Methodius’ and Late Antique Hagiography: “Female” Readings of Male Sexuality 509
33. Notes on Editors and Contributors 529
34. Index Locorum 531
35. General Index 535