Sexuality in Ancient Art: Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Italy

Introduction Natalie Boymel Kampen 1. Sex, rhetoric and the public monument: the alluring body of Narim-Sin of Agade Irene J. Winter 2. Dress, undress and the representation of fertility and potency in New Kingdom Egyptian Art Gay Robins 3. Sex and the politics of female adornment in Pre-Achaemenid Iran Michelle I. Marcus 4. Archaic bodies-in-pieces Page Dubois Desiring women on Athenian pottery Robin Osborne 6. Eros, desire and the gaze Francoise Frontisi-Ducroux 7. Women looking at women: women's ritual and temple sculpture Eva Stehle and Amy Day 8. Portrayals of abduction on Greek art: rape or metaphor? Ada Cohen 9. Reflections Andrew Stewart 10. Etruscan sexuality and funerary art Larissa Bonfante 11. The phallus as signifier: the forum of Augustus and rituals of masculinity Barbara Kellum 12. Hypersexual black men in Augustan myths: ideal somatypes and apotropaic magic John Clarke 13. The pregnant moment: tragic wives in the Roman interior Bettina Bergmann 14. The calculus of Venus: nude portraits of Roman women Eve D'Ambra 15. Omphale and the instability of gender Natalie Boymel Kampen 16. Naturalism and the erotics of the gaze: intimations of Narcissus John Elsner 17. Winkelmann's 'homosexual' teleologies Whitney Davis.