One Hundred Years of Homosexuality

And Other Essays on Greek Love

• Author(s): David M. Halperin,
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Pages: 230
• ISBN_10: 0415900972
  ISBN_13: 9780415900973
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Ancient / General , History / Ancient / Greece , Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies , Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / General ,

Description:... 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."