Wohl's book is an important contribution to a growing body of literature on the psychic experience of Athenian citizens and the fantasies, hopes, and fears that fuel democratic experience in general. She seriously advances the field and also challenges what have become the standard ways of thinking about sexuality in ancient Athens. -- Danielle Allen, author of "The World of Prometheus" This is a very smart, sophisticated, well-written book that offers some new and convincing readings of important texts. Wohl's reading of Athenian culture is original, exciting, and often brilliant. -- Josiah Ober, author of "The Athenian Revolution" and "Political Dissent in Democratic Athens"
*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*Introduction: Ideological Desire, pg. 1*Chapter I. PERICLES' LOVERS, pg. 30*Chapter II. PORNOS OF THE PEOPLE, pg. 73*Chapter III. PERVERSE DESIRE: THE EROS OF ALCIBIADES, pg. 124*Chapter IV. THE EROTICS OF EMPIRE, pg. 171*Chapter V. WHAT DOES THE TYRANT WANT?, pg. 215*Conclusion, pg. 270*Bibliography, pg. 284*Index Locorum, pg. 313*General Index, pg. 321
Victoria Wohl is Assistant Professor of Classics at Ohio State University. She is the author of Intimate Commerce: Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy.
"[Wohl's] results are never less than provocative."--Stephen Halliwell, Times Literary Supplement "A fascinating, thought-provoking book that takes time to absorb."--Peter Krentz, Religious Studies Review
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