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Queer icons from Greece and Rome

Title

Queer icons from Greece and Rome.

Format

Journal, Periodical

Published

Lubbock, TX : Texas Tech University Press, 2008.

Contributors

Blondell, Ruby, guest editor.

Notes

Special issue of Helios : a journal devoted to critical and methodological studies of classical culture, literature and society. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction / Ruby Blondell
• Sculpting Antinous / Bryan Burns
• Lesbians are from Lesbos: Sappho and idenity construction in The Latter / From "filthy Catamite ' to 'queer icon': Elagabalus and the politics of sexuality (1960-1975) / Mark Nugent
• The trouble with icons: recent ideoloigcal appropriations of Plato's Symposium / H. Christian Blood
• The Alexander bromance: male desire and gender fluidity in Oliver Stone's historical epic / Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos.

Subject headings

Sappho. Antinoüs ca. 110-130. Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.

Kinsey subjects

Social customs--Antiquity. Social customs--Greece--Antiquity. Social customs--Rome--Antiquity. Homosexuality--Antiquity.

Host item

Helios vol. 35 no. 2 (Fall 2008) ; pp.113-254.