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  • Greek Homosexuality

    with Forewords by Stephen Halliwell, Mark Masterson and James Robson

    by Sir K. J. Dover ...
    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, ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Between Byzantine Men

    Desire, Homosociality, and Brotherhood in the Medieval Empire

    by Mark Masterson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies
    The presence and importance of same-sex desire between men in the Byzantine Empire has been understudied. While John Boswell and others tried to open a conversation about desire between Byzantine men decades ago, the field reverted to emphasis on prohibition and an inability to read the evidence of same-sex desire between men in the sources. Between Byzantine Men: Desire, Homosociality, and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Sex in Antiquity

    Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World

    Edited by Mark Masterson, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, James Robson ...
    Series series Rewriting Antiquity
    Looking at sex and sexuality from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in a variety of media, Sex in Antiquity represents a vibrant picture of the discipline of ancient gender and sexuality studies, showcasing the work of leading international scholars as well as that of emerging talents and new voices.Sexuality and gender in the ancient world is an ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • From Shame to Sin

    by Kyle Harper ...
    The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex. Kyle Harper examines how Christianity changed the ethics of sexual behavior from shame to sin, and shows how the roots of modern sexuality are grounded in an ancient religious revolution. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Byzantine Intersectionality

    Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages

    by Roland Betancourt ...
    A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term “intersectionality” was coined in 1989, the existence of marginalized identities extends back over millennia. Byzantine Intersectionality reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual culture around sexual and reproductive consent, bullying and slut-shaming, homosocial and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities

    Edited by Thomas K. Hubbard ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities presents a comprehensive collection of original essays relating to aspects of gender and sexuality in the classical world.Views the various practices and discursive contexts of sexuality systematically and holisticallyDiscusses Greece and Rome in each chapter, with sensitivity to the continuities and differences between the two classical ... Read more

    $176.00 USD

  • Resurrection and Reception in Early Christianity

    by Richard C. Miller ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    This book offers an original interpretation of the origin and early reception of the most fundamental claim of Christianity: Jesus’ resurrection. Richard Miller contends that the earliest Christians would not have considered the New Testament accounts of Jesus’ resurrection to be literal or historical, but instead would have recognized this narrative as an instance of the trope of divine ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Christian Invention of Time

    Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    Series series Greek Culture in the Roman World
    Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time has been transformed through industrialisation, trade and technology. But the first such life-changing transformation – under Christianity's influence – happened in late antiquity. It was then that time began to be conceptualised in new ways, with discussion of eternity, life after death and the end of ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Desire and Denial in Byzantium

    Papers from the 31st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Brighton, March 1997

    Edited by Liz James ...
    Series series Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
    The papers in this volume derive from the 31st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies held for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton, in March 1997. Desire, sex, love and the erotic are not terms usually associated with Byzantium and Byzantine Studies, unlike celibacy, virginity and asceticism, which more readily spring to mind. In order to examine whether the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity

    Edited by Richard Miles ...
    The essays in Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity concern themselves with the theme of identity, an increasingly popular topic in Classical studies. Through detailed discussions of particular Roman texts and images, the contributors show not only how these texts were used to create and organise particular visions of late antique society and culture, but also how constructions of identity and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Saints and Symposiasts

    The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture

    by Jason König ...
    Series series Greek Culture in the Roman World
    Greek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had a long and rich afterlife in the first to fifth centuries CE, in both Greco-Roman and early Christian culture. This book provides an account of the history of the table-talk tradition, derived from Plato's Symposium and other classical texts, focusing among other writers on Plutarch, Athenaeus, Methodius and Macrobius. It also deals with ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Dreams and Suicides

    The Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine Empire

    by Suzanne Macalister ...
    This study discusses the Greek novel through the ages, from the genre's flowering in late Antiquity to its learned revival in twelfth-century Byzantium. Its unique feature is its full coverage of the Byzantine novels, demonstrating that they both depend upon and react against the ancient novel, and can only be understood against the cultural backdrop of ancient Greek literature. Dreams and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD