Format:
Online-Ressource (648 p)
ISBN:
9780674011977
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Early Greece: 776-480 BCE -- A Millennium of Greek Love -- Homer's Iliad -- Crete, Sparta, Chalcis -- Athletics and the Cult of Beauty -- Sappho -- Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon -- Theognis of Megara -- Athens' Rulers -- The Tyrannicides -- 2. Judea: 900 BCE-600 CE -- The Judgment of Leviticus -- The Threat to Population -- Sodom's Gold -- Who Were the Kedeshim? -- Philo of Alexandria -- The Talmud -- 3. Classical Greece: 480-323 BCE -- Pindar's Odes -- Greek Tragedy -- Phidias -- The Comedies of Aristophanes -- Plato's Symposium -- The Phaedrus and the Laws -- Xenophon -- Aristotle's Dicta -- Zeno and the Stoics -- Aeschines' Against Timarchus -- The Sacred Band of Thebes -- Philip and Alexander -- 4. Rome and Greece: 323 BCE-138 CE -- Sexuality and Empire -- Cicero and Roman Politics -- Greek Love in the Aeneid -- Meleager and Callimachus -- Catullus and Tibullus -- Theocritus and "Corydon -- Horace's Odes -- Ovid's Myths -- Lesbianism -- Petronius' Satyricon -- Suetonius and the Emperors -- Statius, Martial, Juvenal -- Hadrian and Antinous -- 5. Christians and Pagans: 1-565 CE -- The Gospels -- Intertestamental Judaism and Paul -- "Moses" and the Early Church -- Greek Love in Late Antiquity -- Plutarch's Dialogue on Love -- The Lucianic "Affairs of the Heart" -- Two Romances and an Epic -- Roman Law before Constantine -- The Edicts of 342 and 390 -- Sodom Transformed -- Saint John Chrysostom -- The Persecutions of Justinian -- 6. Darkness Descends: 476-1049 -- The Fall of Rome -- Visigothic Spain -- Church Councils and Penitentials -- The Carolingian Panic -- Love in Arab Spain -- The Growth of Canon Law -- The Book of Gomorrah -- 7. The Medieval World: 1050-1321 -- The Fortunes of Ganymede -- Scandal in High Places -- The Theological Assault -- The Inquisition and Its Allies -- The Fate of the Templars.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674030060
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674011977
Additional Edition:
Print version Homosexuality and Civilization
Language:
English
Keywords:
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