Judith P. Hallett is Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland at College Park. Her many works include Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society (Princeton). Marilyn B. Skinner is Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Catullus' "Passer": The Arrangement of the Book of Polymetric Poems.

"Roman Sexualities makes a major contribution to our understanding of the construction of sexuality in Roman society and culture as it moves beyond the more traditional forms of historical and literary scholarship to create illuminating perspectives on the subject in all its multifaceted complexity."--Phoenix

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Quod multo fit aliter in Graecia ...3Pt. 1Unmarked Sexuality1Invading the Roman Body: Manliness and Impenetrability in Roman Thought29Pt. 2Wayward Sexualities2The Teratogenic Grid473Unspeakable Professions: Public Performance and Prostitution in Ancient Rome66Pt. 3Gender Slippage in Literary Constructions of the Masculine4Dining Deviants in Roman Political Invective995Ego mulier: The Construction of Male Sexuality in Catullus1296The Erotics of amicitia: Readings in Tibullus, Propertius, and Horace1517Reading Broken Skin: Violence in Roman Elegy172Pt. 4Male Constructions of "Woman"8Pliny's Brassiere1979Female Desire and the Discourse of Empire: Tacitus's Messalina22110Female Homoeroticism and the Denial of Roman Reality in Latin Literature25511The Lover's Voice in Heroides 15: Or, Wy Is Sappho a Man?274Pt. 5Female Construction of the Desiring Subject12Tandem venit amor: A Roman Woman Speaks of Love295Bibliography311Notes on Contributors333Index335

Judith P. Hallett is Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland at College Park. Her many works include Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society (Princeton). Marilyn B. Skinner is Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Catullus' "Passer": The Arrangement of the Book of Polymetric Poems.

"Roman Sexualities makes a major contribution to our understanding of the construction of sexuality in Roman society and culture as it moves beyond the more traditional forms of historical and literary scholarship to create illuminating perspectives on the subject in all its multifaceted complexity."--Phoenix

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Quod multo fit aliter in Graecia ...3Pt. 1Unmarked Sexuality1Invading the Roman Body: Manliness and Impenetrability in Roman Thought29Pt. 2Wayward Sexualities2The Teratogenic Grid473Unspeakable Professions: Public Performance and Prostitution in Ancient Rome66Pt. 3Gender Slippage in Literary Constructions of the Masculine4Dining Deviants in Roman Political Invective995Ego mulier: The Construction of Male Sexuality in Catullus1296The Erotics of amicitia: Readings in Tibullus, Propertius, and Horace1517Reading Broken Skin: Violence in Roman Elegy172Pt. 4Male Constructions of "Woman"8Pliny's Brassiere1979Female Desire and the Discourse of Empire: Tacitus's Messalina22110Female Homoeroticism and the Denial of Roman Reality in Latin Literature25511The Lover's Voice in Heroides 15: Or, Wy Is Sappho a Man?274Pt. 5Female Construction of the Desiring Subject12Tandem venit amor: A Roman Woman Speaks of Love295Bibliography311Notes on Contributors333Index335