1st Edition
Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Erotics of Place
Chapter 1: Corinth, Courtesans and the Politics of Place
Chapter 2: Medea in Corinth
Chapter 3: Laconic Sex
Chapter 4: Lyric Poetry, Rape and Spartan Song on the Comic Stage
Chapter 5: Lesbians are Not from Lesbos
Chapter 6: Lesbos and the Invention of Heterosexuality in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Kate Gilhuly is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Wellesley College, USA. She is author of The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece (2009) and the co-editor of Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (2014). She began her research on cultural geography while at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
