Craig A. Williams
Craig A. WilliamsRoman homosexuality

Roman homosexuality

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Roman homosexuality

Ten years after its original publication, Roman Homosexuality remains the definitive statement of this interesting but often misunderstood aspect of Roman culture. Learned yet accessible, the book has reached both students and general readers with an interest in ancient sexuality. This second edition features a new foreword by Martha Nussbaum, a completely rewritten introduction that takes account of new developments in the field, a rewritten and expanded appendix on ancient images of sexuality, and an updated bibliography.

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This was an easy and interesting read on an issue of importance today. A society that was ahead of so many others for centuries in many ways treated something natural in a pretty off-handed way.
The second edition opens with a great little introduction by Professor M. Nussbaum, who helps tie this work contextually to similar works in the study of sexuality (Greek, Roman and modern) written in the last twenty years.
Although now for the first time titled simply Roman Homosexuality, the second edition is the most detailed synthesis yet. Earlier attempts are Otto Kiefer's translated as Sexual Life in Ancient Rome (1934), which Williams doesn't even cite, Saara Lilja's Homosexuality in Republican and Augustan Rome (Commentationes humanarum litterarum) (1983), D.
I first discovered this gem in my school's library. Intrigued by the cover and the great reviews it received I decided to give it a try.

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