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• Title:[Secondo natura. English]
  Bisexuality in the ancient world / Eva Cantarella ; translated by Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin.
  
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• Author/Creator:Cantarella, Eva.
  
• Published/Created:New Haven : Yale University Press, 2002.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: HQ76.2.R6 C3613 2002
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HQ76.2.R6 C3613 2002
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Male homosexuality--Rome--History.
  Male homosexuality--Greece--History.
  Bisexuality--Rome--History.
  Bisexuality--Greece--History.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:xx, 286 p. ; 20 cm.
  
• Series:Yale Nota bene.
  
• Summary:"In this readable and thought-provoking history of bisexuality in the classical age, Eva Cantarella draws on the full range of sources - from legal texts, inscriptions, and medical documents to poetry and philosophical literature - to reconstruct and compare the bisexual cultures of Athens and Rome. This new edition incorporates a new preface and an updated bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-278) and index.
  
• ISBN:0300093020 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Pt. 1. Greece
  1. The Beginnings, the Greek Dark Age and the Archaic Period
  2. The Classical Age
  3. Homosexuality and Heterosexuality Compared in Philosophy and Literature
  4. Women and Homosexuality
  Pt. 2. Rome
  5. The Archaic Period and the Republic
  6. The Late Republic and the Principate
  7. The Empire
  8. The Metamorphoses of Sexual Ethics in the Ancient World.