One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love - Brossura

Halperin, David M

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ISBN 10: 0415900972 ISBN 13: 9780415900973

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1989

Riassunto

Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these features of sexual life in antiquity, Halperin offers an alternative account that accords greater prominence to the indigenous terms in which sexual experiences were constituted in the ancient Mediterranean world. Wittily and provocatively written, Halperin's meticulously drawn windows onto ancient sexuality give us a new meaning to the concept of "Greek love."

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L'autore:

David M. Halperin is Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Product Description:

Ancient Greece is often claimed to be the fountainhead of Western civilization. But would we really recognize ourselves in the ancient Greeks, if we could get a good look at them? Examining love, sex, and gender in the ancient Greek world, David Halperin assembles a fascinating array of evidence in order to document the existence, in ancient Greece, of a radically unfamiliar set of attitudes and behaviours, institutions and social practices. Halperin provides detailed discussions of paederasty, male prostitution, heroic comradeship, and the use of woman' as a symbolic means of communication between men in classical Athens. Arguing that the modern concept of homosexuality' is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these features of sexual life in antiquity, Halperin offers an alternative account that accords greater prominence to the indigenous terms in which sexual experiences were constituted in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0415900972
• ISBN 13: 9780415900973
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 244