Literature for a Society of Equals (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)

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the integral role athletic nudity played in athlete-trainer pederasty

the central role of pederasty in Greek history, politics, art, literature, and learning

tracing the history of the Ganymede myth

how the athletic culture of Sparta contributed to the spread of pederasty in Greece

homosexuality in Boeotia in contrast to the rest of Greece

the homoeroticism of Sappho

dispelling generally accepted myths prevalent about Roman sexuality

Roman visual representations of homosexuality as evidence of prevailing attitudes

homoerotic connotations in literature and philosophy of the Italian Renaissance

the effect of German classical philology on gay scholarship

English Romantic poets and the importance of male love in their lives

the Uranians＊ use of allusions and themes from ancient Greece

the building of intellectual community through gay print culturethrough the use of Greece and Rome as models

and more