Giulia Sissa is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Classics at UCLA. Among her many books are The Greek Virginity, The Daily Life of the Greek Gods and Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World.

• Introduction. I am beside myself with anger ÉChapter 1. Being MedeaChapter 2. A forbidden passionChapter 3. Sexual objects and open couplesChapter 4. The despair of not being lovedChapter 5. Art of love, art of jealousyConclusion. Confessing the unconfessableNotesIndex

"Forget self-help books. Sissa rescues jealousy from the moralists, the philosophers, and an industry devoted to amplifying shame in the guise of therapy with her passionate and altogether compelling defense of erotic anger as the lifeblood of amorous relationships. Giving us much more than a history of jealousy, Sissa enlarges the lover's discourse with her capacious intelligence."Brooke Holmes, Princeton University"an eloquent cri de coeur by a woman who…has shaken off the long Western tradition that repressed women’s jealousy and shamed the jealous."Times Literary Supplement

Giulia Sissa is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Classics at UCLA. Among her many books are The Greek Virginity, The Daily Life of the Greek Gods and Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World.

• Introduction. I am beside myself with anger ÉChapter 1. Being MedeaChapter 2. A forbidden passionChapter 3. Sexual objects and open couplesChapter 4. The despair of not being lovedChapter 5. Art of love, art of jealousyConclusion. Confessing the unconfessableNotesIndex

"Forget self-help books. Sissa rescues jealousy from the moralists, the philosophers, and an industry devoted to amplifying shame in the guise of therapy with her passionate and altogether compelling defense of erotic anger as the lifeblood of amorous relationships. Giving us much more than a history of jealousy, Sissa enlarges the lover's discourse with her capacious intelligence."Brooke Holmes, Princeton University"an eloquent cri de coeur by a woman who…has shaken off the long Western tradition that repressed women’s jealousy and shamed the jealous."Times Literary Supplement

Giulia Sissa is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Classics at UCLA. Among her many books are The Greek Virginity, The Daily Life of the Greek Gods and Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World.

• Introduction. I am beside myself with anger ÉChapter 1. Being MedeaChapter 2. A forbidden passionChapter 3. Sexual objects and open couplesChapter 4. The despair of not being lovedChapter 5. Art of love, art of jealousyConclusion. Confessing the unconfessableNotesIndex

"Forget self-help books. Sissa rescues jealousy from the moralists, the philosophers, and an industry devoted to amplifying shame in the guise of therapy with her passionate and altogether compelling defense of erotic anger as the lifeblood of amorous relationships. Giving us much more than a history of jealousy, Sissa enlarges the lover's discourse with her capacious intelligence."Brooke Holmes, Princeton University"an eloquent cri de coeur by a woman who…has shaken off the long Western tradition that repressed women’s jealousy and shamed the jealous."Times Literary Supplement