The Greeks And Greek Love
A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality In Ancient Greece
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- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2009
Summary
Kenneth Dover’s 1978 Greek Homosexuality remains the most recent single-volume treatment of the subject as a whole. Drawing on fifteen years of ensuing research, James Davidson rejects Dover’s excessively theoretical approach, using a wide variety of sources unknown to him - court cases, romantic novels, satirical plays and poems - to present a view of the subject that, in contrast to Dover and to Foucault, stresses the humanity of the ancient Greeks and how they lived their loves an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753822265 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753822261 |
| Author: | James Davidson |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2009 |
| Weight: | 721g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 154mm x 46mm |
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poses a radical challenge to prominent assumptions about same-sex love in ancient Greece
Davidson’s own scholarship is impressive, but worn lightly, and matched with an easy tone that makes The Greeks and Greek Love a lively, and often very funny, read - LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
poses a radical challenge to prominent assumptions about same-sex love in ancient Greece - OXONIAN REVIEWAbout The Author
James Davidson
James Davidson is Reader in Ancient History at the University of Warwick. He has written on a wide range of ancient topics, including prostitution, drinking to get drunk, sacred time and fish. He is an irregular contributor to The London Review of Books among other journals.
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