Sex in the Ancient World from A to Z

John Younger

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134547012
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

In this fascinating and revealing A-to-Z, John G. Younger examines the sexual practices, expressions and attitudes of the Greeks and Romans, from Catullus and Caligula, to orgies and obscenity, and from abstinence and incest, to pederasty and prostitution. The book opens with an overview of current thinking on ancient sex and sexuality, and goes on to provide an extraordinarily wide coverage of a sexual culture so very different from our own, approaching the subject from the perspectives of literature, history, archaeology and art. Comprehensive, reliable and eye-opening, this A-to-Z illuminates an important aspect of the classical world. For those who want to take their reading further, there are numerous references to ancient sources and modern scholarship, as well as a separate section of works of art. This is an ideal introduction to and exploration of sex in the ancient world for readers at every level.

Ancient sources cited

For abbreviations, see Hornblower and Spawforth 1999: xxi-xliv.

Manuscripts

Achilles Tatius (late 2nd c. CE)—84–5
1.18–15
2.35–8, 5.27–84–5
3.7–90

Aelian (second half 2nd c. CE)
de Natura Animalium
6.1–2
3.9–8, 21
Varia Historia
9.11–119
10.2–65
10.18–85
12.19–117
13.33–114

Aelius Lampridius (3rd c. CE)
Alexander Severus
24–113
Elagabalus—114–15

Aeschines (ca. 397–22 BCE)
Epistles
10.3–8–75
In Timarchum—3, 32
1.10–126
1.10–53
1.41–82
1.74–111
1.9–12–126
1.19–32–66
1.56.7–15
1.85–58
1.138–9–126
1.183–66, 126

Aeschylus (?525/4–456/5 BCE)
Eumenides
658–66–34
Libation Bearers
896–8–25
Myrmidons
fr. 228 Mette—2
Prometheus Bound
135–115

Alcaeus (b. ca. 625/20 BCE)
fr. 130.32 Lobel-Page—18

Alcman (b. 625/20-ca. 605 BCE)
36 Diehl—45
Parthénea—68

Alexis (ca. 375–275 BCE)
206 K-A—27

Ammianus (ca. 330–65 CE)
14.6–47, 117
22.9.15–2

Anacreon (fl. 536/5 BCE)
PMG
346–107, 109
347–7
358–7, 68, 116
376–117
fr. 45–45–6
fr. 369 Diehl—45–6

Anaxilas (4th c. BCE)
K-A
fr. 21–107–8

Andocides (ca. 440–390 BCE)
in Alc.
4.42–18

Anecdota Par. (Anecdota Graeca ed. J.A.Cramer)
2.154.20–25–2

Antiphanes (fl. 385 BCE)
“On Hetaeras”—111, 117
101 K-A—26

Antoninus Liberalis (mid-2nd c. CE)
17–45–69
21–8

Apollodorus (ca. 180-post 120 BCE)
1.2.6–44
1.3.2–3
1.9.9, 11, and 12–3
1.9.17–141
2.1.4–81
2.5.4–30
2.63–126
3.1.2–4–81
3.4.3–41
3.6.7–132
3.13.8–133
3.12.2–52
3.14.3 and 4–3
3.14.6–15
3.101–64
3.116–58
5.1.6 and 9–81

Apollonius (3rd c. CE)—78
1.57 scholiast—29
2.188 ff.—22

Apuleius (b. ca. 123 CE)
Apology
10–106
Metamorphoses—85
2.11.2–50
4.28–12
10.22–19

Archilochus (d. 652 BCE)
196A West=S478 Page=Campbell 1976:463:15–16–36

Aretaeus Cappadocius (1st c. CE)
De causis et signis acutorum morborum
2.5.4–2

Aristides (ca. 100 BCE)
Milesian Tales—84

Aristides Quintilianus (3rd c. CE)
1.13–32

Aristophanes (ca. 455–386 BCE)
Acharnians
527–30–14
790–2–9
1199–1200–25
Clouds
8–10–22
341 ff.—140
358–63–115
373–23
974–8–15, 53
1079–85–3
Eccles. —
647–37
735–54
end—107
Frogs
422–37
1279f–17
1308–46, 68
Knights
115–7–22
1278 f., and scholiast—2
1397–1401–109
1401, 1279f–17
Lys.—2, 130, 14
79–83–86, 128
83–92–68
107–10–41
150–7–55
163–6–140
230–40–124
641–7–41
710–30–141
876–9–124
918–64
end—...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Theory and Modern Scholarship
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• R
• S
• T
• V
• W
• Z
• Bibliography
• Ancient Sources Cited
• Works of Art Cited