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The Greeks And Greek Love - A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality In Ancient Greece (Paperback, New ed)
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The Greeks And Greek Love - A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality In Ancient Greece (Paperback, New ed)
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A radical reappraisal of homosexuality in Ancient Greece, by a
young historian described as 'the best thing to happen to ancient
history for decades' (Andrew Roberts, MAIL ON SUNDAY) 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 and pleasures, rather than their moral
codes and the theorising of philosophers. Homosexuality in Ancient
Greece remains a central area of debate in the classics, in ancient
history and lesbian and gay studies. Greek civilisation centrally
underpins our own, providing a basis of so much of the west's
culture and philosophy, yet the Greeks were more tolerant of
homosexuality than virtually any other culture, certainly than the
western civilisations that followed. The extent to which Greek
attitudes to sexuality and in particular their privileging of
'Greek Love' were comparable and different to our own underlies the
continuing debate over the formation of sexuality and the much
wider question of the roles of nature and nurture in the formation
of human behaviour and personality.
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