Sex or Symbol?: Erotic Images of Greece and Rome by Catherine Johns

Sex or Symbol?: Erotic Images of Greece and Rome

Catherine Johns

160 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction art history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Investigating overt sexual representations in the art of Greek and Roman life, Johns explains that many of the objects which Victorians found shocking were not all intended to have an erotic purpose. Many had a religious and apotropaic function, a...

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