Now with new chapters on Greek vase painting and Roman artifacts and wall paintings, Controlling Desires is the essential classroom and general introduction to sexual practices, attitudes, and beliefs in the classical world.

• Figures
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Homer, Hesiod, and Greek Lyric Poetry
• 3. Sexual Roles and Sexual Rules in Classical Athens
• 4. Sexuality in Greek Comedy
• 5. Legal and Illegal Sex in Ancient Greece
• 6. Philosophical Sex
• 7. Greek Pots and Greek Sex
• 8. Love and Sex in Hellenistic Poetry
• 9. Rome and Roman Sex
• 10. Roman Comic Sex
• 11. Legal and Illegal Sex in Ancient Rome
• 12. Roman Poetry about Love and Sex
• 13. Excursus: Lesbians in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
• 14. Roman Sex on the Walls and in Gardens: Artifacts and Images
• 15. Imperial Sex: Nero and Seneca
• 16. Sex in Satire and Invective Poetry
• 17. Epilogue
• Appendix 1. Timeline of Greek History and Culture
• Appendix 2. Timeline of Roman History and Culture
• Notes
• Further Readings
• Index

Kirk Ormand is a professor of classics at Oberlin College. His books include Exchange and the Maiden: Marriage in Sophoclean Tragedy and Ancient Sex: New Essays.