TY - BOOK ID - 118289529 TI - Searching for the Cinaedus in ancient Rome AU - Weiner, Jesse AU - Gazzarri, Tommaso PY - 2023 SN - 9789004548374 9004548378 PB - Leiden; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Sex customs KW - Sex KW - Homosexuality KW - Sex customs in literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118289529 AB - The cryptic figure of the Cinaedus recurs in both the literature and daily life of the Roman world. His afterlife - the equally cryptic catamite - appears to be well and alive as late as Victorian England. But who was the Cinaedus? Should we think of a real group of individuals, or is the term but a scare name to keep at bay any form of threating otherness? This book, the first coherent collection of essays on the topic, addresses the matter and fleshes out the complexity of a debate that concerns not only Roman Cinaedi but the foundations of our theoretical approach to the study of ancient sexuality ER -