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Games of Venus: an anthology of Greek and Roman erotic verse from Sappho to Ovid
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ISBN: 0415902606 Year: 1991 Publisher: London Routledge

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Games of Venus : an anthology of Greek and Roman erotic verse from Sappho to Ovid
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ISBN: 0415902614 9780415902618 Year: 1993 Publisher: London Routledge

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Contains a useful introduction acquainting the reader with ancient sexual mores in their social setting, and offering a helpful guide to reading ancient erotic verse. Poems are prefaced by brief sketches of each poet's life and times. (Routledge)


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Games of Venus : an anthology of Greek and Roman erotic verse from Sappho to Ovid
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ISBN: 0203451473 1283965577 1136611169 Year: 1991 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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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

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