ISBN:
9789004548374
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 316 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Mnemosyne volume 475
Series Statement:
Supplements
Series Statement:
Mnemosyne 〈Leiden〉 / Supplementum
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Searching for the Cinaedus in Ancient Rome
DDC:
306.770937
Keywords:
Sex customs
;
Sex
;
Homosexuality
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Antike
;
Mann
;
Homosexualität
Abstract:
"The cryptic figure of the Cinaedus recurs in both the literature and daily life of the Roman world. His afterlife - the equally cryptic catamite - appears to be well and alive as late as Victorian England. But who was the Cinaedus? Should we think of a real group of individuals, or is the term but a scare name to keep at bay any form of threating otherness? This book, the first coherent collection of essays on the topic, addresses the matter and fleshes out the complexity of a debate that concerns not only Roman Cinaedi but the foundations of our theoretical approach to the study of ancient sexuality"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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