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

Family, Sexuality, and Social Relations in Past Times

Porneia: On Desire and the Body in Antiquity

Aline Rousselle

226 pages paperback 1983

3 editions

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Porneia means fornication, unchastity, desire for another's body. Drawing on Roman and Greek works of science, medicine, gynecology, and law and on Christian and pagan religious texts, Aline Rouselle discovers the intimate fears, passions, superst...

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