Table of Contents

Introduction Natalie Boymel Kampen; 1. Sex, rhetoric and the public monument: the alluring body of Narim-Sîn of Agade Irene J. Winter; 2. Dress, undress and the representation of fertility and potency in New Kingdom Egyptian Art Gay Robins; 3. Sex and the politics of female adornment in Pre-Achaemenid Iran Michelle I. Marcus; 4. Archaic bodies-in-pieces Page Dubois; Desiring women on Athenian pottery Robin Osborne; 6. Eros, desire and the gaze Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux; 7. Women looking at women: women's ritual and temple sculpture Eva Stehle and Amy Day; 8. Portrayals of abduction on Greek art: rape or metaphor? Ada Cohen; 9. Reflections Andrew Stewart; 10. Etruscan sexuality and funerary art Larissa Bonfante; 11. The phallus as signifier: the forum of Augustus and rituals of masculinity Barbara Kellum; 12. Hypersexual black men in Augustan myths: ideal somatypes and apotropaic magic John Clarke; 13. The pregnant moment: tragic wives in the Roman interior Bettina Bergmann; 14. The calculus of Venus: nude portraits of Roman women Eve D'Ambra; 15. Omphale and the instability of gender Natalie Boymel Kampen; 16. Naturalism and the erotics of the gaze: intimations of Narcissus John Elsner; 17. Winkelmann's 'homosexual' teleologies Whitney Davis.

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The first anthology on the visual representation of the sexual body, sexual activity and desire.

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"It is a handsome volume...." "...invites us to be aware of our own relationship to the ancient evidence as fragmentary; this approach has been useful to critics and scholars of such writes as H.D." Madeline M. Henry, International Journal of the Classical Tradition

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