One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love

Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these features of sexual life in antiquity, Halperin offers an alternative account that accords greater prominence to the indigenous terms in which sexual experiences were constituted in the ancient Mediterranean world. Wittily and provocatively written, Halperin's meticulously drawn windows onto ancient sexuality give us a new meaning to the concept of "Greek love."

Author: David M. Halperin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/15/1989
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.95h x 5.88w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780415900973

About the Author

David M. Halperin is Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.