Description: Now available on paperback, Naked Truths explores the portrayal of sexual difference and gender roles in Greco-Roman art and architecture. Applying a feminist approach to a wide range of classical works, this unique book offers a fresh new perspective on the art, history and culture of the ancient and modern world, including issues such as: -- the dynamics of female beauty and male violence in early Italian society -- portrayals of nursing mothers in Etruscan and Greek art -- the nude cult status of the Knidian Aphrodite -- Clytemnastra and the iconography of transgression -- images of Sappho in Greek vase painting -- mortal and divine sexuality in the Parthenon frieze -- voyeuristic intercations inspired by the figure of the hermaphrodite -- the role of desire and desirability in understanding sex and gender in the ancient world, and more.

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