One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love (New Ancient World Series)

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. booknews a Collection Of Five Essays By Halperin (literature, Mit) Which Have Seen Earlier Publication, And Heroes And Their Pals, P.75-87, Which First Appears Here. Annotation C. Book News, Inc., Portland, Or (booknews.com) In 1992, when the patriots among us will be celebrating the five-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, our cultural historians may wish to mark the centenary of an intellectual landfall of almost equal importance for the conceptual geography of the human sciences: the invention of homosexuality by Charles Gilbert Chaddock. Examining love, sex and gender in the ancient Greek world, David Halperin documents the existence in ancient Greece of a radically unfamiliar set of attitudes and behaviours, institutions and social pratices. Examining love, sex and gender in the ancient Greek world, the author documents the existence in ancient Greece of a radically unfamiliar set of attitudes and behaviours, institutions and social practices.