Product Description: Hailed as magisterial when it first appeared, Greek Homosexuality remains an academic milestone and continues to be of major importance for students and scholars of gender studies. Kenneth Dover explores the understanding of homosexuality in ancient Greece, examining a vast array of material and textual evidence that leads him to provocative conclusions...read more

Product Description: Les figures antiques peuplent notre imaginaire érotique et, il y a peu, l''« amour grec » désignait pudiquement l''homosexualité. L''enlèvement par Zeus du jeune Ganymède est légendaire, tout comme les vers de Sappho célébrant le désir et la beauté des femmes de Lesbos...read more

Product Description: For nearly two thousand years, historians have treated the subject of homosexuality in ancient Greece with apology, embarrassment, or outright denial. Now classics scholar James Davidson offers a brilliant, unblushing exploration of the passion that permeated Greek civilization...read more

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Product Description: To what extent and in what ways was homosexuality approved by the ancient Greeks? An eminent classicist examines the evidence--vase paintings, archaic and classical poetry, the dialogues of Plato, speeches in the law courts, the comedies of Aristophanes--and reaches provocative conclusions...read more

Product Description: First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.