Sex or Symbol: Erotic Images of Greece and Rome by Catherine Johns
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Sex or Symbol: Erotic Images of Greece and Rome
Sex or Symbol: Erotic Images of Greece and Rome
Summary
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.
Sex or Symbol: Erotic Images of Greece and Rome Summary
Table of Contents
Collectors and prudes; fertility and religion; the phallus and the Evil Eye; Dionysos and drama; men and beasts; men and women; conclusions.
Additional information
GOR002013761
9780714117133
0714117137
Sex or Symbol: Erotic Images of Greece and Rome by Catherine Johns
Used - Very Good
Hardback
British Museum Press
19900326
192
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