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31 de ago. de 1997 · Love in the Ancient World: Directed by Christopher Miles. With Kathleen Turner, John Julius Norwich, Fanis Adamopoulos, Theophanis Adamopoulos. Since the beginning of recorded history the human race has tried, with varying degrees of success, to keep its erotic impulses in check.
The film examines with experts and written evidence at the time, how the ancient civilisations around the Mediterranean basin regarded love and sexuality.
The Stoic philosopher Seneca discusses many kinds of love in his works – love of one’s family, love of one’s country, love of one’s self – but it is the relationship between love and friendship that particularly interests him.
The Aphrodite of Knidos is one famous depiction of the goddess of love, and was made by the sculptor Praxiteles in the 4th Century B.C.E. It is the first large nude statue of a female...
The film examines with experts and written evidence at the time, how the ancient civilisations around the Mediterranean basin regarded love and sexuality, before the icy kiss of organised...
Special explores the extraordinary lengths to which the civilizations of the ancient world went to control their sex drives. The sexual practices of Egypt, Greece, Rome and others are examined along with the self-imposed "civilizing" rules they lived under.
29 de ago. de 1997 · More about sex than love, the informative, straightforward “Love in the Ancient World” touches on sexual practices, marriage rites, homosexuality and the first stirrings of romantic love...
