Power and eroticism in Imperial Rome
Through detailed analysis of a selection of material (poetry, prose and statues), this book explores how imperial power, and the authority and accessibility of the Roman emperor, were constructed and contested through the representation of sexual relations.
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 2007
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.], 2007
XIV, 285 p. ill. 26 cm
9780521867399, 0521867398
1014875534
1. The erotics of imperium; 2. Romancing the stone: the story of Hadrian and Antinous; 3. Compromising traditions: the case of Nero and Sporus; 4. A match made in heaven: Earinus and the emperor; 5. Mistress as metaphor: a dialogue with Panthea; 6. And so to bed...
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0712/2007297862.html