Looking at lovemaking: constructions of sexuality in roman art, 100 b.c. - a.d. 250
Date: 26 Jan 2009, 02:37
John R. Clarke, "Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B.C. - A.D. 250" University of California Press | ISBN: 0520200241 | March 23, 1998 | 406 pages | PDF | 7.9MB What did sex mean to the ancient Romans? In this lavishly illustrated study, John R. Clarke investigates a rich assortment of Roman erotic art to answer this question--and along the way, he reveals a society quite different from our own. Clarke reevaluates our understanding of Roman art and society in a study informed by recent gender and cultural studies, and focusing for the first time on attitudes toward the erotic among both the Roman non-elite and women. This splendid volume is the first study of erotic art and sexuality to set these works--many newly discovered and previously unpublished--in their ancient context and the first to define the differences between modern and ancient concepts of sexuality using clear visual evidence.
