Author: Brisson, Luc
Title: Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphrodism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Description: Berkeley [CA], Univ. of California Press, (2002). orig.cloth. 21x14cm, xiv,196 pp. Textual tables. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction; Monsters; An Ominous Prodigy; An Error of Nature; A Phenomenon; Dual Sexuality and Homosexuality; The Myth of Hermaphroditus,as Told by Ovid; Masculinity and Feminity in Ancient Greece and Rome; Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome; Archetypes; The Myth of Aristophanes in Plato's 'Symposium'; Orphism; Gnosticism; The 'Chaldean Oracles'; The 'Hermetic Corpus'; The Phoenix; Mediators; The Myth of Tiresias; A Brief Bestiary Associated with the Myth of Tiresias; Conclusion.

Keywords: Classical Antiquity, Psychology Greek, Ancient Greece, Literary History, Graeco-Roman, Sexual Behaviour, Latin Literature, Hermaphrodism, Literary Criticism