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Greek Homosexuality Hardcover – January 1, 1989
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- Print length246 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherFine Communications
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1989
- Dimensions6.5 x 1 x 9.75 inches
- ISBN-101567312217
- ISBN-13978-1567312218
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- Publisher : Fine Communications; 1st edition (January 1, 1989)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 246 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1567312217
- ISBN-13 : 978-1567312218
- Item Weight : 1.35 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.5 x 1 x 9.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,687,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,578 in LGBTQ+ Demographic Studies
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Stephen Halliwell is Wardlaw Professor Emeritus of Greek at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, has taught in the universities of Oxford, London, Cambridge, and Birmingham, and has held visiting professorships in Belgium, Canada, Italy, and the USA. His extensive interests in Greek literature, philosophy, and culture stretch all the way from Homer to the literature (both pagan and Christian) of the Roman empire. His publications include two prize-winning books: Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity (Criticos Prize 2008), and The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems (Premio Europeo d'Estetica, 2008). Among his other books are a monograph on Aristotle's Poetics (1986, 1998), the Loeb Library translation of Aristotle's Poetics (1995), commentaries on books 5 and 10 of Plato's Republic (1988, 1993), Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus (2011), a large-scale commentary on the ancient treatise On the Sublime (published first in Italian translation, in the Lorenzo Valla series, in 2021, and in English by Oxford University Press in 2022), and verse translations of the complete plays of Aristophanes for the Oxford World's Classics series (Birds and Other Plays, 1997; Frogs and Other Plays, 2016; Acharnians, Knights, Wasps and Peace, 2022, to appear in World's Classics in 2023). He has given over 200 invited research lectures in twenty countries.

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Still, I think the message of this book speaks volumes concerning the irrationality and injustice of the taboos of the modern age.
Secondly - I could not follow his numbering on the vases! Don't get me wrong, this is not the first book I've read dealing with ancient vase painting....but his reference numbers were indecipherable.
But I like that there were lots of vases and lots of good descriptions and references to stories and events.
Dover was very precise in his discussion of homosexual behaviour and the rites of different localities. He was also very detailed in how the homosexual or pederastic relationship came about, expanded and gave many references to rules and regulations. He cited many examples using the vases. It helped me get a more indepth idea of the entire relationship.
Also included were relationships between women and women and women and men.
I felt this book was more a reference book for scholars studying vases and homosexual behaviour in antiquity than a book for the lay person.









