Greek and Roman Sexualities: A Sourcebook

Jennifer Larson

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781441196859
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781441153371
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

Since the publication of Foucault's History of Sexuality the volume of Classical scholarship on gender, sexuality and the body has steadily increased in tandem with the expansion of these topics in other areas of the Humanities. This volume will provide readers with a substantial selection of primary sources documenting sexualities, sexual behaviors, and perceptions of sex, sexuality, gender, and the body among people in the ancient Greco-Roman world. The coverage will begin with Homer in the eighth century BCE and will focus most heavily on Classical Greece and Rome from the Republic to the early Empire, though sources reflecting societal changes in later antiquity and a selection of Jewish and Christian readings will also be included. Authors will include Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Galen, Ovid and Plutarch, with each chapter including one or two substantial 'focal' readings. The materials will include poetry, history, oratory, medical and philosophical writings, letters, and inscriptions, both public and private.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Using This Book
• 1 Sexuality and the Gods
• 1.1 Homer Iliad 14.159–86, 214–21, 312–51.
• 1.2 Hesiod Theogony 886–929.
• 1.3 Homer Odyssey 5.118–29.
• 1.4 Homeric Hymn to Demeter 4–20.
• 1.5 Aeschylus Danaids TrGF 3 Fr. 44.1–7.
• 1.6 Aristophanes Acharnians 259–78.
• 1.7 Aristophanes Lysistrata 387–98.
• 1.8 Aristotle The Constitution of Athens 3.5.
• 1.9 Theocritus Idylls 15.65–149.
• 1.10 Catullus Songs 63.1–26.
• 1.11 Livy History of Rome 39.8.3–39.13.14.
• 1.12 Dionysius of Halicarnassus Roman Antiquities 4.2–3.
• 1.13 Ovid Fasti 4.224–44.
• 1.14 Priapea 10–17, 25–31, 67–70.
• 1.15 Pausanias Description of Greece 7.17.9–12.
• 1.16 Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Greeks 2.17–18, 29–30.
• 1.17 Augustine City of God 6.9.
• 1.18 Scholiast on Lucian Dialogues of the Courtesans 2.1, 7.4 (Rabe).
• 2 Deities of Desire: Their Nature and Effects
• 2.1 Homer Iliad 3.380–420.
• 2.2 Hesiod Theogony 114–22, 173–206.
• 2.3 Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 45–246.
• 2.4 Sappho Frs. 31, 47, 130 Lobel-Page.
• 2.5 Anacreon PMG 413.
• 2.6 Ibycus PMG 286.
• 2.7 Empedocles Fr. 17.15–29 Diels-Kranz.
• 2.8 Euripides Hippolytus 170–222, 525–64.
• 2.9 Aristophanes Birds 673–702.
• 2.10 Plato Symposium 180c–181c, 189c–193d.
• 2.11 Aristotle Rhetoric 1370b.
• 2.12 Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics 1167a 3–8.
• 2.13 Asclepiades Greek Anthology 5.210, 5.189, 12.105.
• 2.14 Posidippus Greek Anthology 5.211.
• 2.15 Apollonius of Rhodes Argonautica 3.275–98.
• 2.16 Lucretius On the Nature of Things 1–43.
• 2.17 Vergil Georgics 3.242–263.
• 2.18 Vergil Aeneid 4.296–330
• 2.19 Propertius Elegies 1.1.
• 2.20 Ovid Amores 1.5.
• 2.21 Sulpicia [Tib.] 3.18.
• 2.22 Pausanias Description of Greece 1.27.1–4.
• 2.23 Apuleius Metamorphoses 5.22–3.
• 3 Anxiety, Suspicion and Blame
• 3.1 Hesiod Theogony 565–612.
• 3.2 Hesiod Works and Days 53–105.
• 3.3 Homer Odyssey 10.326–47.
• 3.4 Euripides Hippolytus 616–68.
• 3.5 Aristophanes Women at the Thesmophoria 466–519.
• 3.6 Euripides Bacchae 215–262, 314–27.
• 3.7 Antiphon Against the Stepmother for Poisoning 1.14–20.
• 3.8 Demosthenes Against Androtion 22.30–32.
• 3.9 Aeschines Against Timarchus 1.21.
• 3.10 Ritual law from Methymna IG XII, 2.499 (= LSCG 127).
• 3.11 To Herennius on Rhetoric 4.16.23.
• 3.12 Cicero For Caelius 13.30–16.36.
• 3.13 Catullus Songs 57.
• 3.14 Cicero Philippics 2.44–5.
• 3.15 Livy History of Rome 34.4.1–20, 34.6.16.
• 3.16 Seneca the Elder Controversiae 1 Pref. 8–9.
• 3.17 Martial Epigrams 5.61.
• 3.18 Juvenal Satires 2.82–116, 6.268–341.
• 3.19 Aulus Gellius Attic Nights 6.12.
• 3.20 Curse tablet. Suppl. Mag. I.38.
• 3.21 Tertullian On the Apparel of Women 1.1.1–3, 2.2.4–6.
• 4 Pederasty and Male Homoerotic Relations
• 4.1 Graffiti from Thera. IG XII 3.536, 537, 540, 542, 543, 550.
• 4.2 Theognis Elegies 1259–70.
• 4.3 Anacreon PMG 360, 407.
• 4.4 Aristophanes Clouds 957–1029.
• 4.5 Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War 6.54.1–4, 6.56.1–57.4.
• 4.6 Plato Symposium 181c–184c.
• 4.7 Plato Phaedrus 255a–256d.
• 4.8 Xenophon Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 2.12–14.
• 4.9 Xenophon Symposium 8.16–22.
• 4.10 Plato Laws 636b–d.
• 4.11 Ephorus of Cyme FrGrHist 70 F 149.
• 4.12 Plautus Casina 449–70.
• 4.13 Vergil Eclogues 2.1–27.
• 4.14 Cicero On the Republic 4.3–4.
• 4.15 Petronius Satyrica 85–7.
• 4.16 Martial Epigrams 11.43.
• 4.17 Plutarch Life of Solon 1.2–3.
• 4.18 Plutarch Life of Pelopidas 18.
• 4.19 Statius Silvae 2.6.35–58.
• 4.20 Suetonius The Twelve Caesars 1.49 (Caesar); 7.22 (Galba).
• 4.21 Aelian Various History 3.10.
• 4.22 Augustine Confessions 3.8.
• 5 Female Homosocial and Homoerotic Relations
• 5.1 Alcman PMG Fr. 1.36–101, Fr. 3.61–85.
• 5.2 Sappho Fr. 1, 16 Lobel-Page.
• 5.3 Anacreon PMG 358.
• 5.4 Nossis Greek Anthology 5.170, 6.275, 9.604.
• 5.5 Herodas Mimes 6.
• 5.6 Asclepiades Greek Anthology 5.207.
• 5.7 Ovid Metamorphoses 9.702–97.
• 5.8 Seneca the Elder Controversiae 1.2.23.
• 5.9 Phaedrus Fables 4.16.
• 5.10 Paul Letter to the Romans 1.22–32.
• 5.11 Martial Epigrams 1.90, 7.67.
• 5.12 Plutarch Life of Lycurgus 18.4.
• 5.13 Artemidorus of Daldis Interpretation of Dreams 1.80.
• 5.14 Magical papyrus with binding spell. PGM 32.
• 5.15 Tatian Address to the Greeks 33.
• 5.16 Lucian Dialogues of the Courtesans 5.
• 5.17 Tertullian On the Pallium 4.9.
• 5.18 Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh 16.6.
• 6 Philosophical and Medical Models of the Body and Sexuality
• 6.1 Hesiod Works and Days 582–8.
• 6.2 Hippocrates On Generation 1.1–3, 4 Joly.
• 6.3 Hippocrates On Diseases of Virgins 8.468 Littré.
• 6.4 Plato Timaeus 91b–d.
• 6.5 Plato Laws 838a–841a.
• 6.6 Aristotle Generation of Animals 727b–728a (selections), 737a.
• 6.7 Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics 1118a 8–9.
• 6.8 Epicurus Sententiae Vaticanae 51 Muehll.
• 6.9 Lucretius On the Nature of Things 4.1037–1208.
• 6.10 Philo of Alexandria The Special Laws 1.1–2.
• 6.11 Musonius Rufus 12 (Concerning Sexual Pleasures).
• 6.12 Dio Chrysostom Orations 36.55–6.
• 6.13 Soranus Gynecology 1.8 (33), 1.10 (37).
• 6.14 Galen On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body 14.2, 14.6 (selections), 15.3.
• 6.15 Galen On Semen 1.16 (selections).
• 6.16 Diogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2.46, 72; 7.1.129–31; 10.1.118.
• 6.17 Origen Against Celsus 4.48.
• 7 Virginity, Chastity, and Modesty
• 7.1 Homer Odyssey 6.251–88.
• 7.2 Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 1–44.
• 7.3 Herodotus Histories 1.8–12.
• 7.4 Euripides Hippolytus 73–87.
• 7.5 Xenophon Memorabilia 1.2.1–2.
• 7.6 Theopompus of Chios FGrHist 115 F 204.
• 7.7 Ritual law from Cyrene. LSCG Supp. 115.A11–15, B 1–23.
• 7.8 Catullus Songs 61.46–118.
• 7.9 Cornelius Nepos Lives of Eminent Commanders Preface 1–8.
• 7.10 Propertius Elegies 2.33a.
• 7.11 Seneca the Elder Controversiae 4 Preface 10.
• 7.12 Valerius Maximus Memorable Deeds and Sayings 6.1.1–4.
• 7.13 Plutarch Life of Numa 9.5–10.7.
• 7.14 Soranus Gynecology 1.7 (30–32).
• 7.15 Acts of Paul and Thecla 7–12.
• 7.16 Heliodorus Aethiopica 5.4.4–5, 10.7.6–10.9.4.
• 7.17 Ammianus Marcellinus History 25.4.2–3.
• 8 Marital Sexuality
• 8.1 Homer Odyssey 6.175–85.
• 8.2 Homer Odyssey 23.164–232.
• 8.3 Sophocles Antigone 806–16, 890–925.
• 8.4 Euripides Medea 214–66.
• 8.5 Euripides Suppliants 990–1030.
• 8.6 Euripides Helen 625–59.
• 8.7 Aristophanes Lysistrata 99–166.
• 8.8 Isaeus 10.18–20.
• 8.9 Xenophon Symposium 9.1–7.
• 8.10 Xenophon Economics 10.2–13.
• 8.11 Pseudo-Demosthenes Against Neaera 59.122.
• 8.12 Roman gravestone. CIL I2 1221.
• 8.13 Musonius Rufus 13a (On the Goal of Marriage).
• 8.14 Paul First Letter to the Corinthians 7.1–9.
• 8.15 Plutarch Advice on Marriage 16–18 (= Moralia 140b–146a).
• 8.16 Plutarch Life of Lycurgus 15.3–9.
• 8.17 Plutarch Life of Solon 20.2–3.
• 8.18 Plutarch Life of Cato the Younger 25.2–5.
• 8.19 Plutarch Dialogue on Love 749d–750a, 750b–e, 751b–52a.
• 8.20 Flavius Josephus Antiquities of the Jews 15.7.2–6 (selections).
• 8.21 Pliny the Younger Letters 7.5.
• 8.22 Aulus Gellius Attic Nights 1.6.1–6.
• 9 Transgression and Deviance
• 9.1 Homer Iliad 3.38–75.
• 9.2 Homer Odyssey 8.266–370.
• 9.3 Archilochus Fr. 196a West Vol. 1.
• 9.4 Herodotus Histories 5.92G.1–4.
• 9.5 Euripides Cretans TrGF 5.1, F 472e lines 4–52.
• 9.6 Sophocles Oedipus the King 1205–21.
• 9.7 Euripides Bacchae 912–62.
• 9.8 Lysias On the Murder of Eratosthenes 1.30–33.
• 9.9 Aeschines Against Timarchus 1.14–16.
• 9.10 Leviticus 18 (Septuagint).
• 9.11 Catullus Songs 89–91.
• 9.12 Livy History of Rome 1.9, 1.58.
• 9.13 Ovid The Art of Love 1.659–78.
• 9.14 Petronius Satyrica 16–26.
• 9.15 Suetonius The Twelve Caesars 6.28–9 (Nero).
• 9.16 Artemidorus of Daldis Interpretation of Dreams 1.79.
• 9.17 Pausanias Description of Greece 4.16.9–10.
• 9.18 Julius Paulus Prudentissimus Opinons 2.26.1–17.
• 10 Prostitutes and Courtesans
• 10.1 Pindar Fr. 122 Snell-Maehler.
• 10.2 Herodotus Histories 1.199.1–5.
• 10.3 Xenophon Memorabilia 3.11.1–15.
• 10.4 Pseudo-Demosthenes Against Neaera 59.17–25.
• 10.5 Philemon The Brothers PCG 7, Fr. 3.
• 10.6 Plato (?) Greek Anthology 6.1.
• 10.7 Antipater of Sidon Greek Anthology 7.218.
• 10.8 Horace Satires 1.2.82–105.
• 10.9 Horace Odes 1.25.
• 10.10 Strabo Geography 8.6.20.
• 10.11 Seneca the Elder Controversiae 1.2.5–7.
• 10.12 Valerius Maximus Memorable Deeds and Sayings 2.10.8.
• 10.13 Graffiti from Pompeii. CIL 4.2175, 2192–3, 2248, 2259, 3999, 8949.
• 10.14 Plutarch Life of Pericles 24.1–7.
• 10.15 Martial Epigrams 1.34.
• 10.16 Juvenal Satires 6.115–32.
• 10.17 Dio Chrysostom Orations 7.133–9.
• 10.18 Tacitus Annals 2.85.
• 10.19 Lucian Dialogues of the Courtesans 3.
• 10.20 Justin Martyr Apology 1.27.1–5.
• 10.21 Athenaeus The Philosophers at Dinner 13.590d–91d.
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index of Sources
• Index