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Title: ANCIENT ROME AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MODERN HOMOSEXUAL IDENTITIES
By: Jennifer Ingleheart (Editor)
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0199689725
ISBN 13: 9780199689729
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 22 October, 2015
Series: Classical Presences
Pages: 384
Description: This interdisciplinary volume analyses the importance of ancient Rome in the construction of post-classical Western homosexual identities.
Synopsis: Much has been written about the contribution of ancient Greece to modern discourses of homosexuality, but Rome's significant role has been largely overlooked. Ancient Rome and the Construction of Modern Homosexual Identities explores the contested history of responses to Roman antiquity, covering areas such as literature, the visual arts, popular culture, scholarship, and pornography. Essays by scholars working across a number of disciplines analyse the demonization of Rome and attempts to write it out of the history of homosexuality by early activists such as John Addington Symonds, who believed that Rome had corrupted ideal (and idealized) 'Greek love' through its decadence and sexual licentiousness. The volume's contributors also investigate the identification with Rome by men and women who have sought an alternative ancestry for their desires. The volume asks what it means to look to Rome instead of Greece, theorizes the way in which Rome itself appropriates Greece, and explores the conse
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
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