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

213 pages 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, gynaecology and law, and on Christian and pagan theology, the author discovers the intimate fears, passions, superstitions a...

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