1st Edition

Sexual Life In Ancient Greece

By Hans Licht Copyright 2000
    480 Pages
    by Routledge

    478 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 2001. From Ancient Greece, modern Western civilisation has derived many of its artistic philosophical and pollical ideas. But, in certain areas of sexual tolerance and inventiveness, we still have much to learn from the land and age which produced the most flourishing and creative culture of the ancient world. Professor Hans Licht, in this erudite and fascinating book, discusses in full every aspect of the Ancient Greek's sexual life.

    Part 1 Greek Ideals of Life; pt1 Chapter 1 Marriage and the Life of Women; pt1 Chapter 2 The Human Figure; pt1 Chapter 3 Festivals; pt1 Chapter 4 The Theatre; pt1 Chapter 5 Dances, Games, Meals, etc.; pt1 Chapter 6 Religion and Erotic*For the connection between Religion and Erotic, see W. Achelis, Die Deutung Augustins,[analyse seines] geistigen Schaffens auf Grund seiner erotischen Struktur; James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902); Starbuck, Psychology of Religion (1899).; pt1 Chapter 7 Erotic in Greek Literature; Part 2 The Love of the Man for the Woman; pt2 Chapter 2 Masturbation; pt2 Chapter 3 Tribadism; pt2 Chapter 4 Prostitution; pt2 Chapter 5 Male Homosexuality; pt2 Chapter 6 Perversions of Greek Sexual Life; pt2 Chapter 7 Supplementary to the Sexual Life of the Greeks;

    Biography

    PROFESSOR HANS LICHT taught at Leipzig University, Germany, between the two World Wars.