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  Love in the Ancient World by Christopher Miles Hardcover
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Make/Author/Artist: Christopher Miles
Edition/ Material: 1997
Details: Hard Cover

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Product Code: LVEANC

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Since the beginning of recorded history the human race has tried, with varying degrees of success, to keep its erotic impulses in check. This book looks at how the ancient world civilizations regarded sex and sexuality before hedonism was curtailed by the icy kiss of organized religion, and before relations between the sexes were muddied by a prevailing sense of guilt,

From the voluptuous Venus figures of prehistoric art to the Aphrodisian temples of Asia Minor, the imagery of erotic love permeated European cave paintings and Egyptian cosmologies, Herbraic commandments and Latin codexes. It finds them in the teachings of Plato and the histories of Plutarch, and weaves them together into a colorful and controversial reassessment of our ancestors' preoccupation with love and sex, from which we can learn a great deal today.

CONDITION: Hard Cover with DJ, USED lightly, light wear. St Martin's Press, 1997 First U.S. Edition. 176 pages. Generously illustrated.

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