To browse Academia. Latin lexicology studied and veted on the intricancies of sexuality cathegorical frameworks. This work is a guide to J. Adams, The Latin Sexual Vocabulary Adams examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin roughly BCE to CE. The outline and definitions are intended for adult scholars not only of Classical Latin texts, but also of those written in the Italian Renaissance period c.
Books by Giovanni Battista Folengo for example, show a further evolution of the Latin sexual vocabulary. The Words of Sexuality Linguistic, Semiotic analysis of sexuality, Almost the whole of Western culture has adopted the word sexuality to describe the dynamics of the various sexual acts, the feelings and emotions that these acts evoke, but also elements of identity. But what words existed in every culture before the word "sexuality" prevailed?
Did they have the same meaning? The linguistic and semiotic analysis of the words and phrases we use to describe the phenomena surrounding human sexuality can raise interesting questionings. This acquires great value in our era where sexuality is in an open dialogue or confrontation with everything that defined it until now such as ethics, society, culture, religion and biology itself. The foundational lexicographical aids for Old English OE were largely created in the Victorian era, a period marked by discomfort with the sexual body.
What this volume is about: Terms, contexts and topics Much time has passed since scholars were afraid that their papers and lectures about, or pedagogical discussions of, aspects of ancient Greek and Roman sexuality could be seen as inappropriate or even offensive. Nowadays, a Cambridge Dean, unlike the one mentioned in E. Forster's novel, Maurice, would never ask a student to omit "a reference to the unspeakable vice of the Greeks", i.
What is still relatively understudied in classical scholarship, a battleground where many claims are still contested, is sex and sexual practices themselves. This volume aims to revisit, further explore and, through updated interdisciplinary approaches, shed more light on the textual and non-textual sources that help us reconstruct a clearer, more coherent and precise overarching picture of sex and all the practices related to it in Greco-Roman antiquity.
