Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents

by Thomas K. Hubbard (Editor)

Overview

The most important primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome are translated into modern, explicit English and collected together for the first time in this comprehensive sourcebook. Covering an extensive period—from the earliest Greek texts in the late seventh century b.c.e. to Greco-Roman texts of the third and fourth centuries c.e.—the volume includes well-known writings by Plato, Sappho, Aeschines, Catullus, and Juvenal, as well as less well known but highly relevant and intriguing texts such as graffiti, comic fragments, magical papyri, medical treatises, and selected artistic evidence. These fluently translated texts, together with Thomas K. Hubbard's valuable introductions, clearly show that there was in fact no more consensus about homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome than there is today.

The material is organized by period and by genre, allowing readers to consider chronological developments in both Greece and Rome. Individual texts each are presented with a short introduction contextualizing them by date and, where necessary, discussing their place within a larger work. Chapter introductions discuss questions of genre and the ideological significance of the texts, while Hubbard's general introduction to the volume addresses issues such as sexual orientation in antiquity, moral judgments, class and ideology, and lesbianism. With its broad, unexpurgated, and thoroughly informed presentation, this unique anthology gives an essential perspective on homosexuality in classical antiquity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520234307
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	05/12/2003
Series:	Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literatu
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	575
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Thomas K. Hubbard is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin, and author of The Pipes of Pan: Intertextuality and Literary Filiation in the Pastoral Tradition from Theocritus to Milton (1998) and The Mask of Comedy: Aristophanes and the Intertextual Parabasis (1991), among other books.

Table of Contents

Translation Credits
Preface
Introduction
1. Archaic Greek Lyric
2. Greek Historical Texts
3. Greek Comedy
4. Greek Oratory
5. Greek Philosophy
6. Hellenistic Poetry
7. Republican Rome
8. Augustan Rome
9. Later Greco-Roman Antiquity

Works Cited
Index
Illustrations