The gay Greek myths, illustrated with Greek and Roman ceramics, sculptures and frescoes.

Back to People With a History Paul Halsall: Homosexual Eros in Early Greece (1986) This paper was written as a course essay in 1986. It does not purport to be anything other than an (early) graduate student paper. Paul Halsall Love, and sex, between men is not a rare thing. Anthropologically a majority of societies accept what we now call homosexuality, especially where one partner plays a ...

Abstract GREEK PSEUDO-HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE GREEK-MIRACLE by Georges Devereux This study deals exclusively with the homosexuality of non-perverted Greeks. Unlike perversion, such homosexuality did not presuppose an underlying perverted fantasy, was not a stable pattern, did not represent a compulsion and was not used for the purpose of diminishing the intensity of sexual experiences. It ...

Different Desires: A Dialogue Comparing Male and Female Love attributed to Lucian of Samosata Translation copyright 2000 Andrew Kallimachos; all rights reserved. Lucian of Samosata, the prolific second century CE Greek satirist and tireless traveler, is thought by many not to have authored the present text, Erotes. The various descriptions of the places visited by the protagonists seem rather to ...