Games of Venus: An Anthology of Greek and Roman Erotic Verse from Sappho to Ovid by Rip Cohen, Peter Bing

Games of Venus: An Anthology of Greek and Roman Erotic Verse from Sappho to Ovid

Rip Cohen, Peter Bing

294 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

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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 begi...

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