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Homosexuality in Greece and Rome : A Sourcebook of Basic Documents by Thomas K. Hubbard, [name missing] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The most important primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome are translated into modern, explicit English and collected together for the first time in this comprehensive sourcebook. Covering an extensive period—from the earliest Greek texts in the late seventh century b.c.e. to Greco-Roman texts of the third and fourth centuries c.e.—the volume includes well-known writings by Plato, Sappho, Aeschines, Catullus, and Juvenal, as well as less well known but highly relevant and intriguing texts such as graffiti, comic fragments, magical papyri, medical treatises, and selected artistic evidence. These fluently translated texts, together with Thomas K. Hubbard's valuable introductions, clearly show that there was in fact no more consensus about homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome than there is today. The material is organized by period and by genre, allowing readers to consider chronological developments in both Greece and Rome. Individual texts each are presented with a short introduction contextualizing them by date and, where necessary, discussing their place within a larger work. Chapter introductions discuss questions of genre and the ideological significance of

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Author

Thomas K. Hubbard, [name missing]

Publisher

Berkeley, [Calif.]: University of California Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520223813

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Literary Criticism