History 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hetaira, Wet Nurse, Married People
4 Jan 2019
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Lecture 2: the christian foundations of sexuality: ancient (classical) greece. The time period we"re going to be looking at is 800 bce 500ce: bce = before the common era. It"s a non-religious alternative to bc (before christ) Greece can be referred to ancient/classical greece and at this time, it was a patriarchal society. Patriarchy = rule of the fathers , which meant that men ran the show (e. g. politics, civic life, and the home) Male sexual activity was seen as completely normal and it was seen as a sign of manhood, so it was encouraged: they didn"t care about women sexual urges. In ancient greece, there was free man and enslaved man: free man had a lot of sexual freedom. Men had quickies but also had long-term extra-marital affairs with high class mistresses. These free men who would characteristically be a part of a symposium: a symposium in ancient greece was basically a place where all sexual hell broke loose.
