In this fascinating book Giulia Sissa looks at sensuality and sexual desire in the Greek, Roman, and early Christian worlds, demonstrating how modern concepts of sexuality have emerged from the practi
This year marks the five-hundredth anniversary of Thomas More’s widely influential bookUtopia, and this volume brings together a number of scholars to consider the book, its long afterlife, and specif
Discusses the everyday life of the gods of the Iliad, including what their bodies were made of, how they received nourishment, their social life on Olympus and among humans, and their loves, festivit
