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KILMER, M.F., Greek Erotica on Attic Red-Figure Vases. Duckworth, London, 1993. XIV,286p. Cloth. Cover and free endpage a bit stained. A few pen annotations from KJD. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. (Rare). 'The book, which comes from the same publisher as Sir Kenneth Dover's 'Greek Homosexuality', strikingly resembles the Dover volume in its layout and approach. Kilmer has consciously keyed his book to Dover's, adopting, for example, the senior scholar's list of vase paintings and fitting new vases to it. He acknowledges his scholarly debt to Dover in his preface and introduction, while Dover, in turn, has a note on the jacket flap in which he calls the book a good, solid fulfillment of the kind of further research he hoped his own study would prompt. Kilmer's book is broader in its viewpoint than was Dover's, in that it examines heterosexual and what he calls 'autosexual' phenomena along with homosexual, but is narrower in that it focuses on the relatively short period of about 520-460 B.C. and confines itself to Attic red-figure vase painting. In his selection of paintings from that time span, Kilmer well fulfills his title by assembling the hard-core erotica (though in comparison with contemporary pornography, he calls it soft), picking out representations of masturbation and copulation and adding to them ones bearing upon a miscellany of triple-x subjects, including dildos, sadistic sandal wielding, and the female practice of partially depilating the genitals. In a time-honored manner of archaeological studies, he arranges his material in a typology of categories and subcategories. (...) Greek erotica is not the same as Greek sexuality. Nonetheless it is a striking component of that society's overall erotic interests, a remarkable island in the wider sexual sea. Kilmer has well charted it in this volume, and it is welcome news that he is preparing a companion study on Attic black-figure erotica.' KEITH DEVRIES, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 95.08.01). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover. € 195.00 (Antiquarian)