Love, Sex and Tragedy : How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives Book

	A life in ruins	1
I	Who do you think you are?
1	The perfect body	11
2	A man's thing?	29
3	The female body - soft and spongy, shaved and coy	39
4	His and hers - a love story?	47
5	Greek love	55
6	A man is a man is a...	66
7	Longing for Sappho	76
8	Doing what comes naturally?	87
II	Where do you think you are going?
1	The empire of religion	97
2	Superstars of the flesh	104
3	Sex and the city	114
4	What's Athens to Jerusalem?	128
5	Greek is heresy!	144
6	Knowing the answer	157
III	What do you think should happen?
1	Does politics need history?	163
2	Athenian democracy - changing the map	168
3	The good citizen	179
4	The critics of democracy - experts and education	195
5	A question of betrayal	204
6	The will of the people	210
IV	What do you want to do?
1	That's entertainment!	215
2	The question of tragedy	220
3	The gladiator and the baying crowd - 'at my command, unleash Hell'	233
4	The last supper	249
V	Where do you think you come from?
1	A Greece of the imagination	255
2	Founding fathers - from Keats to Hollywood and back	259
3	Finding the fatherland - where Freud's Oedipus comes from	281
4	The mother of all stories - the Greek Oepidus	297
5	The myth of origins	308
6	History today	318
	Notes	323
	Further reading	329
	Picture acknowledgements	335
	Acknowledgements	337