This brings to a close my summary of Boehringer's Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. The book was everything I hoped it would be. (Well, ok, I fantasized that it might include data that I'd never encountered before, but I'm not surprised it didn't.) This book makes a good pairing with Williams' Roman Homosexuality, which primarily focuses on the male side of the equation. Read Williams to get a grounding in the dominant structures of the Roman sexual system, and then forget everything he says about f/f sex and read Boehringer. (Not that Williams is wildly wrong, but only that he doesn't have space for the same scope of investigation.)
I'm feeling semi-inspired to write the "classical world" chapter of my secret project (a practical guide to writing f/f historical fiction in various eras) while all this is still fresh in my memory.
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