Queer Roman Verse: An Anthology

A vital reclamation of queer themes in the poetry of ancient Rome from an electric new talent in classical translation.

Centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, as new global empires sought to enshrine the art and literature of their ancient predecessor, some inconvenient truths were lost in translation. Queer love and desire—expressed freely and variously throughout Roman poetry, from the lyrics of Horace to the epics of Virgil and Ovid—had no lexicon in nineteenth-century English, who...