Sex Or Symbol? Erotic Images of Greece and Rome

by: Johns, C.

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Investigating overt sexual representations in the art of Greek and Roman life, Johns explains that many of the objects which Victorians found shocking were not all intended to have an erotic purpose. Many had a religious and apotropaic function, and also shed light on social mores of the time.

Contents:
Collectors and prudes; fertility and religion; the phallus and the Evil Eye; Dionysos and drama; men and beasts; men and women; conclusions.

Subjects:
Civilisation ancienne
Civilization, Classical
Erotica
Érotisme
Greece
Rome (Empire)
Sex customs
Sex customs Greece
Sex customs Rome
Sex symbolism
Symbolisme sexuel
Vie sexuelle Grèce
Vie sexuelle Rome

160 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Sex Or Symbol? Erotic Images of Greece and Rome

by: Johns, C.

• ISBN-13: 9780714117133 / 978-0-7141-1713-3
• ISBN-03: 0714117137 / 0-7141-1713-7
• British Museum Press, London, 1982

Price: 45,00 EURO

1 copy in stock