Luke Edward Hall / Sean Hewitt: 300,000 Kisses

Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World. UK 2023, 208 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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Penguin UK
»Steeped in honey, Juventius, your golden eyes, and as sweet too when I press my lips to them - three hundred thousand kisses is not close to enough.«- For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a few, famous narratives are widely known - yet there's a rich literary tradition of ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Fry: Troy

UK 2021, 432 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Penguin UK
The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against that great city, to which they will lay siege for ten whole and very bloody years. Zeus, the king of the gods, triggers war when he asks the Trojan prince Paris to ... Weiterlesen

Pat Barker: The Silence of the Girls

UK 2018, 325 pp., pb., € 12.95
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Penguin UK
Queen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered homeland and given as a concubine to a foreign warrior. The warrior is Achilles: famed hero, loathed enemy, ruthless butcher, darkly troubled spirit. Briseis's fate is now indivisibly entwined with his. No one knows it yet, but there are just ten weeks to go until the Fall of Troy, the end of ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Fry: Heroes. Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures

UK 2018, 478 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Penguin UK
Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes. In this companion to his bestselling »Mythos,« Stephen Fry retells these dramatic, funny, tragic mostly queer and always timeless tales. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fleece. See ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Fry: Mythos. The Greek Myths Retold

UK 2018, 442 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Penguin UK
In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. We shiver when Pandora opens her jar of evil torments and watch with joy as the legendary love affair between Eros and Psyche ... Weiterlesen

Colm Tóibín: House of Names

UK 2017, 224 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Penguin UK
On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into victorious battle. Years later, he returns home and his murderous action has set the entire family - mother, brother, sister - on a path of intimate violence, as they enter a world of hushed commands and ... Weiterlesen

K.J. Dover: Greek Homosexuality

UK 2016, 246 pp., brochure, € 59.95
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Bloomsbury
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 ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Persian Boy

UK 2014, 476 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Part 2 of a classic trilogy on the life of Alexander the Great - covering the last 7 years of his life from the perspective of his devoted Persian lover, the eunuch Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but eventually found his freedom with Alexander. Bagoas' extraordinary cultivation ... Weiterlesen

Heidi Belleau: Mark of the Gladiator

USA 2012, 219 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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After an inconvenient display of mercy in the arena, the gladiator Anazâr is pulled from the sands and contracted to nobleman Lucius Marianus to train his new stable of gladiators. Anazâr is eager he is to achieve it ? perhaps it's because Marianus is truly remarkable: handsome, dignified, honorable, and seemingly as attracted to Anazâr as Anazâr is to him. ... Weiterlesen

Brooke Holmes: Gender

Antiquity and Its Legacy. UK/USA 2012, 213 pp., brochure, € 37.95
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I.B. Tauris
Gender has now become a pervasive topic in the humanities and social sciences. Yet despite the popularity of gender studies both inside and outside the academy, some have argued that the radical debates which first characterised gender studies have lost their critical edge. The author rescues ancient ideas about sex and gender with an eye towards reinvigorating contemporary debate. She ... Weiterlesen

Madeline Miller: The Song of Achilles

UK/D 2012, 357 pp., Pb, € 17.95
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Bloomsbury Berlin
Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles, »best of all the Greeks«, is everything Patroclus is not - strong, beautiful, the child of a goddess - and by all rights their paths should ... Weiterlesen

Linda Kay Silva: Third Time's a Charm

USA 2011, 235 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Spinsters Ink - Across Time 3
Murder, ghosts, and ancient Egyptian mysteries surround Jessie in this 3rd installment of the »Across Time« series. Her family's inn is haunted, and Jessie fears the ghosts might hurt her little brother if she can't find out what they want. When she discovers the true nature of their visits, she must travel back to ancient Egypt, to her former self, ... Weiterlesen

Martijn Icks: The Crimes of Elagabalus

The Life and Legacy of Rome's Decadent Boy Emperor. UK/USA 2011, 276 pp. with b/w plates, pb, € 37.95
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Elagabalus was one of the most notorious of Rome's »bad emperors«: a sexually-depraved and eccentric hedonist who in his short and riotous reign made unprecedented changes to Roman state religion and defied all taboos. An oriental boy-priest from Syria - aged 14 when he was elevated to power - he placed the sun god Elagabal at the head of the ... Weiterlesen

P. J. Rhodes: Alcibiades

Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor. UK 2011, 143 pp. illustr., hardbound, € 27.99
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Young Athenian aristocrat Alcibiades came to prominence during the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens. Flamboyant, charismatic and wealthy, this beloved of philosopher Socrates persuaded the Athenians to attempt to stand up to the Spartans on land as part of an alliance he was instrumental in bringing together. He was also a prime mover in Athens' desastrous Sicilian Expedition. On ... Weiterlesen

Dyfri Williams: The Warren Cup

UK 2006m 46pp., brochure, € 14.95
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The Warren Cup is a remarkably important masterpiece of gay Roman art, created in the first century AD showing men in sexual intercourse. This book examines the history, both ancient and modern, that the Warren Cup has to tell. It also attempts to set the cup in its ancient contexts - where and when it was made; where and when ... Weiterlesen

Craig Arthur Williams: Roman Homosexuality

UK 2010, 471 pp., brochure, € 79.95
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Oxford University Press
Ten years after its original publication, »Roman Homosexuality« remains the definitive statement of this interesting but often misunderstood aspect of Roman culture. Learned yet accessible, the book has reached both students and general readers with an interest in ancient sexuality. This second edition features a new foreword by Martha Nussbaum, a completely rewritten introduction that takes account of new developments ... Weiterlesen

Ian Jenkins, Victoria Turner: The Greek Body

UK 2009, 144 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 26.80
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To the ancient Greeks the human body in sculpture was both an object of sensory delight and an expression of an intelligent mind. From the abstract simplicity of prehistoric Cycladic figurines to later realism, sculptors gave form to thought in a rich harvest of artworks that have had a profound influence upon western visual culture. Through photographs and close-up views, ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Lear, Eva Cantarella : Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty

Boys Were Their Gods. UK/USA 2009, 262 pp., brochure, € 89.00
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Taylor and Francis
Greek pederasty, or »paiderastia« - the social custom of erotic relations between adult men and adolescent boys - was a central characteristic of Greek culture. Both Greeks and non-Greeks saw it, along with the gymnasium with its intimate connection to pederasty, as markers of Greek identity. It is an important theme in Greek literature, from poetry to comedy to philosophy, ... Weiterlesen