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Ancient Rome and the Construction of Modern Homosexual Identities (Hardcover)
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Ancient Rome and the Construction of Modern Homosexual Identities (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Presences
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Much has been written about the contribution of ancient Greece to
modern discourses of homosexuality, but Rome's significant role has
been largely overlooked. Ancient Rome and the Construction of
Modern Homosexual Identities explores the contested history of
responses to Roman antiquity, covering areas such as literature,
the visual arts, popular culture, scholarship, and pornography.
Essays by scholars working across a number of disciplines analyse
the demonization of Rome and attempts to write it out of the
history of homosexuality by early activists such as John Addington
Symonds, who believed that Rome had corrupted ideal (and idealized)
'Greek love' through its decadence and sexual licentiousness. The
volume's contributors also investigate the identification with Rome
by men and women who have sought an alternative ancestry for their
desires. The volume asks what it means to look to Rome instead of
Greece, theorizes the way in which Rome itself appropriates Greece,
and explores the consequences of such appropriations and
identifications, both ancient and modern. From learned discussions
of lesbian cunnilingus in Renaissance commentaries on Martial and
Juvenal, to disgust at the sexual excesses of the emperors, to the
use of Rome by the early sexologists, to modern pornographic films
that linger on the bodies of gladiators and slaves, Rome has been
central to homosexual desires and experiences. By interrogating the
desires that create engagements with the classical past, the volume
illuminates both classical reception and the history of sexuality.
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