Recent attacks on contemporary art have portrayed the erotic content of works by Robert Mapplethorpe and others as if it were a deviation from the Western artistic tradition. On the contrary, there is a rich tradition of eroticism in the arts beginning with the erotic verse of ancient Greek and Roman poets. Games of Venus, the first comprehensive anthology in English of ancient Greek and Roman erotic verse, revives this tradition for the modern reader. Games of Venus presents the whole spectrum of erotic poetry from Sappho to Ovid in translations which evoke the full range of styles and tones present in the original Greek and Latin. Brief biographical sketches accompany the work of each poet as do notes referring to the myths, geography, historical events, personages, and sexual and social customs mentioned in the verse.Published in 1991 Paperback published in 1993 by Routledge 29 West 35 Street New York, NY 10001 Published in Great ... Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Games of Venus : an anthology of Greek and Roman erotic verseanbsp;...
Title | : | Games of Venus |
Author | : | Peter Bing, Rip Cohen |
Publisher | : | Routledge - 2013-01-11 |
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