Preface

Part I Roman Vice

1 Introduction
2 Naked Bodies
An Introduction (less than successful) to the Naked Body
The Naked Body in Greece
Naked Romans
The Love of Art and the Art of Love
3 Obscene Texts Illustrating the Unspeakable Talking Dirty
4 Erotic Rites
The Myth of the Orgy
Locating the Erotic in Roman Religion
5 Imperial Biography
The Private Lives of the Caesars Explaining Roman Gossip Culture

Part II Greek Love

6 Introduction
What is ‘Greek Love’? Scenes from a Courtroom I
7 Greece
The Loves of Hellas
The Platonic Vision
8 Rome and the West
Greece under Rome and Rome under Greece
Greek Love Burns Briefly, but Brightly
9 Renaissance and Enlightenment
Giving Birth in the Beautiful
The Pursuit of Love
10 Nineteenth Century and Beyond
Greek Love Triumphant
Sapphic Love
A Mixed Legacy: Greek Love in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
11 Epilogue
Scenes from a Courtroom II

Notes and Further Reading
Bibliography
Index