false 2035864 2 Though the issue of Greek homosexuality has been the subject of extensive research and debate in recent years, Kenneth Dover's 1978 GREEK HOMOSEXUALITY remains the most recent single-volume treatment of the subject as a whole. Drawing on fifteen years of ensuing research, James Davidson rejects Dover's excessively theoretical approach, using a wide variety of sources unknown to him - court cases, romantic novels, satirical plays and poems - to present a view of the subject that, in contrast to Dover and to Foucault, stresses the humanity of the ancient Greeks, and how they lived their loves and pleasures, rather than their moral codes and the theorising of philosophers.<P>Homosexuality in Ancient Greece remains a central area of debate in the classics, in ancient history and lesbian and gay studies. Greek civilisation centrally underpins our own, providing a basis of so much of the west's culture and philosophy, yet the Greeks were more tolerant of homosexuality than virtually any other culture, certainly including the western civilisations that followed. The extent to which Greek attitudes to sexuality and in particular their privileging of `Greek love' were comparable and different to our own underlies the continuing debate over the formation of sexuality (`is it natural or cultural?') as well as, both then and in our own time, the much wider question of the roles of nature and nurture in the formation of human behaviour and personality. This should be an important book, certain to provoke much debate. 2040650 29 11 2007 The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece total:5|5:1|4:0|3:3|2:0|1:1| 5 15 20 3 3 0 false false Mon Oct 19 12:48:32 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 12:56:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 12:19:24 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 04:21:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 07:58:06 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 15:27:14 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 30 13:30:33 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 13:30:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 02 14:00:10 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 14:00:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Aug 16 13:19:36 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 13:19:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jul 25 12:58:50 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 13:02:52 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Tue Jul 21 00:09:50 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 00:09:50 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jun 18 07:52:16 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 07:52:16 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 09 10:59:27 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 10:59:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jun 03 21:51:41 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 21:51:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon May 04 09:19:15 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 09:19:15 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 01 15:18:36 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 15:18:36 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Apr 25 11:45:52 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 11:45:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jan 14 04:36:47 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 04:36:47 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jul 27 02:14:20 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 02:14:20 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Jul 26 20:25:21 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 20:25:21 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Jul 15 07:50:35 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 25 15:09:12 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jul 14 17:30:10 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 17:30:19 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Jun 21 14:11:25 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 16:38:27 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 14:11:25 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2035864