Porneia: On Desire and the Body in Antiquity by Aline Rousselle

Porneia: On Desire and the Body in Antiquity

Family, Sexuality, and Social Relations in Past Times

Aline Rousselle

213 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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"Porneia" means fornication, unchastity, desire for another's body. Drawing on Roman and Greek works of science, medicine, gynaecology and law, and on Christian and pagan theology, the author discovers the intimate fears, passions, superstitions a...

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