One hundred years of homosexuality : and other essays on Greek love
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One hundred years of homosexuality : and other essays on Greek love
（The new ancient world）
Routledge, 1990
- : pbk.
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100 years of homosexuality
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"The New ancient world"--Jacket
Bibliography: p. 213-224
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780415900966
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Examining love, sex and gender in the ancient Greek world, David Halperin documents the existence in ancient Greece of a radically unfamiliar set of attitudes and behaviours, institutions and social practices.
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: pbk. ISBN 9780415900973
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Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these features of sexual life in antiquity, Halperin offers an alternative account that accords greater prominence to the indigenous terms in which sexual experiences were constituted in the ancient Mediterranean world. Wittily and provocatively written, Halperin's meticulously drawn windows onto ancient sexuality give us a new meaning to the concept of "Greek love."
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1
- Chapter 1 Hundred Years of Homosexuality
- Chapter 2 "Homosexuality": A Cultural Construct
- Chapter 3 Views of Greek Love: Harald Patzer and Michel Foucault
- Part 2
- Chapter 4 Heroes and their Pals
- Chapter 5 The Democratic Body: Prostitution and Citizenship in Classical Athens
- Chapter 6 Why is Diotima a Woman?
- Notes
- BIBLIOGRAPHY of frequently cited works Addendum
- Index
- A Note on the Author
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