"Professor Hubbard has had the generosity and good sense to include
fragmentary as well as complete texts, and inscriptions and
graffiti as well as properly literary works. The translations by
divers hands faithfully represent an enormously wide range of
genres and both high and colloquial styles, and the Greek and Latin
texts are intelligently grouped into ten chapters by period and
subject-matter, each introduced and annotated by the editor. There
is an excellent selection of illustrations, including the
fetishistic Roman-period Warren Cup recently purchased by the
British Museum, that depicts both pederastic sodomy and
voyeurism."--Paul Cartledge, author of "Spartan Reflections
"It would be difficult to find a way to overstate the value of
Hubbard's contribution to our study of ancient sex and sexuality.
Even those who think they know all about these topics are in for
some surprises when they explore this vast collection of primary
texts from the ancient Mediterranean world. Students, too, will
find a great feast of information spread before them. The selection
is comprehensive, and the English translations are carefully
chosen. My first question, as I began to understand the nature of
the sourcebook I held in my hands, was: Why has no one done this
before?"--John T. Kirby, author of "Secret of the Muses Retold
"Hubbard has achieved a remarkable feat. He has collected the
literary and historical (and some artistic) evidence documenting
same-sex eroticism in ancient Greece and Rome, in all its
varieties. He introduces these sources to the general reader by
period and author and analyzes controversial issues such as
essentialism vs. social constructivism and the very
rubrichomosexuality, and he traces changing attitudes toward
diverse homoerotic practices. His Sourcebook provides readers with
just the right amount of background on changing social and
political contexts from Greece to Rome, and introduces the full
range of scholarship on a broad and important topic. It will
fascinate and educate all those interested in the history of
sexuality and, in practical terms, it will facilitate teaching and
research in Gay Studies and indeed in Cultural Studies and Ancient
History."--Nancy Felson, author of "Regarding Penelope: From
Character to Poetics
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