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Available
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Publication
Vintage (1980), Edition: 1st Vintage Books, Paperback, 244 pages
Description
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, for which Dover wrote an epilogue reflecting on the impact of his book, includes two specially commissioned forewords assessing the author's legacy and the place of his text within modern studies of gender in the ancient world
User reviews
LibraryThing member ruric
Fairly detailed methodical description and analysis of homosexuality in Ancient Greece. Scholarly, detailed and academic but not beyond a lay person to read.
Looks at the law, manifestatio of eros and nature and society. Good, if somewhay dry, read.
Looks at the law, manifestatio of eros and nature and society. Good, if somewhay dry, read.
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Original publication date
1978
Physical description
9.1 inches
ISBN
0394742249 / 9780394742243
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DBF-Gift of Deborah Bender Frankel