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Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture - Gender, Desire, and Denial in the Age of Justinian (Hardcover)
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Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture - Gender, Desire, and Denial in the Age of Justinian (Hardcover)
Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World
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Sexy, scintillating, and sometimes scandalous, Greek epigrams from
the age of the Emperor Justinian commemorate the survival of the
sensual in a world transformed by Christianity. Around 567 CE, the
poet and historian Agathias of Myrina published his Cycle, an
anthology of epigrams by contemporary poets who wrote about what
mattered to elite men in sixth-century Constantinople: harlots and
dancing girls, chariot races in the hippodrome, and the luxuries of
the Roman bath. But amid this banquet of worldly delights, ascetic
Christianity - pervasive in early Byzantine thought - made sensual
pleasure both more complicated and more compelling. In this book,
Steven D. Smith explores how this miniature classical genre gave
expression to lurid fantasies of domination and submission,
constraint and release, and the relationship between masculine and
feminine. The volume will appeal to literary scholars and
historians interested in Greek poetry, Late Antiquity, Byzantine
studies, Early Christianity, gender, and sexuality.
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