Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome: A Collection of New Translations (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781516572892)

Erotic desire is as old as the human race and erotic literature as old as civilization.

With bold, new translations, the author presents and discusses some of the most beautiful, stirring expressions of erotic desire from the ancient world of Greece and Rome, reaching across three thousand years of history to tap into the many kinds of passion we still know today: new or seasoned, obsessive or unrequited, heterosexual or homosexual, noble or illicit. Students learn the cult

Author: Stephen Bertman
ISBN-10: 1516572890
ISBN-13: 9781516572892
Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
Language: English
Published: 12/05/2018
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d