One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love (New Ancient World Series) - Softcover

Halperin, David M

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Synopsis

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."

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David M. Halperin is Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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ISBN 10:  1138140767 ISBN 13:  9781138140769
Publisher: Routledge, 2016
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