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Greek Homosexuality (1978)

by K. J. Dover

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Hailed as magisterial when it first appeared, Greek Homosexuality remains an academic milestone and continues to be of major importance for students and scholars of gender studies. Kenneth Dover explores the understanding of homosexuality in ancient Greece, examining a vast array of material and textual evidence that leads him to provocative conclusions. This new release of the 1989 second edition, for which Dover wrote an epilogue reflecting on the impact of his book, includes two specially commissioned forewords assessing the author's legacy and the place of his text within modern studies of gender in the ancient world… (more)
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study of literary and artistic evidence
  ritaer | Apr 15, 2020 |
Fairly detailed methodical description and analysis of homosexuality in Ancient Greece. Scholarly, detailed and academic but not beyond a lay person to read.

Looks at the law, manifestatio of eros and nature and society. Good, if somewhay dry, read. ( )
  ruric | Dec 29, 2012 |
Not a lot wrong with it, except perhaps for some dodgy vase interpretations. It needs to be more explicitly a work of lit crit, probably, being pretty strong on the subjects of Aischines and Plato. ( )
  FuficiusFango | Sep 20, 2009 |
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Hailed as magisterial when it first appeared, Greek Homosexuality remains an academic milestone and continues to be of major importance for students and scholars of gender studies. Kenneth Dover explores the understanding of homosexuality in ancient Greece, examining a vast array of material and textual evidence that leads him to provocative conclusions. This new release of the 1989 second edition, for which Dover wrote an epilogue reflecting on the impact of his book, includes two specially commissioned forewords assessing the author's legacy and the place of his text within modern studies of gender in the ancient world

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