TY - BOOK ID - 138798102 TI - Games of Venus : an anthology of Greek and Roman erotic verse from Sappho to Ovid AU - Bing, Peter. AU - Cohen, Rip. PY - 1991 SN - 0203451473 1283965577 1136611169 PB - New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Erotic poetry, Greek KW - Erotic poetry, Latin KW - Sex customs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138798102 AB - 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 spect ER -