Looking at Lovemaking, Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 by Clarke, John R - 1998

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very Good. xvii, 372 pp, with illustrations, bibliography, index. Previous owner' name on front pastedown; else as new. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear with one 1/8 inch tear at rear top corner. From the dust jacket: This volume "examines Roman attitudes toward sex and toward race, ethnicity, physical deformity, and humor as well - and shows how radically the Romans' conception of these ideas differs from ours today. This richly illustrated volume is the first study of ancient erotic art and sexuality to set these works - many newly discovered and previously unpublished - in their ancient context and the first to define the differences between modern and ancient concepts of sexuality using clear visual evidence."