Rethinking Sexuality – Foucalt & Classical Antiquity: Foucault and Classical Antiquity - Hardcover

Larmour, David H J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691016801 ISBN 13: 9780691016801

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1998

Synopsis

In this collection of essays, historians and literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault, particularly his "History of Sexuality", on the study of classics. Foucault's work presents a theory of sexuality for both ancient and modern times. These essays should help the reader to explore Foucault's model of Greek culture and see how well his interpretation accounts for the full range of evidence from Greece and Rome.

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About the Author

David H. J. Larmour is Associate Professor of Classics and Paul Allen Miller is Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, both at Texas Tech University. Charles Platter is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia.

From the Back Cover

"This volume of rich and varied essays offers a range of stimulating insights into Foucault's encounters with classical antiquity on matters of sexuality and the body.... Not least among the virtues of this collection is the close analysis of literary and philosophical works by some of the best-known classical authors of Greece and Rome, such as Sappho, Plato, Petronius, and Catullus, read here with and against Foucault's ideas."--Froma I. Zeitlin, Princeton University

From the Inside Flap

"This volume of rich and varied essays offers a range of stimulating insights into Foucault's encounters with classical antiquity on matters of sexuality and the body.... Not least among the virtues of this collection is the close analysis of literary and philosophical works by some of the best-known classical authors of Greece and Rome, such as Sappho, Plato, Petronius, and Catullus, read here with and against Foucault's ideas."--Froma I. Zeitlin, Princeton University

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691016801
• ISBN 13: 9780691016801
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 268