| Classical Culture and Modern Masculinity Contributor(s): Orrells, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199236445 ISBN-13: 9780199236442 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) - Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 306.709 |
| LCCN: 2011500198 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.15 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Since the middle of the eighteenth century, the classical world has been seen as foundational and exemplary to Western civilization. However, the Greeks never invaded and colonised western and northern Europe the way the Romans did, and, conversely, Greece was a difficult place to reach for modern travellers well into the nineteenth century. Inevitably, therefore, the links with ancient Greece were a product of the imagination: an exemplary civilization, in its politics, arts, and culture. There was one problem, however: the Greeks, it seemed, enjoyed pederastic relations. And not only this: one of Athens' most famous teachers, Socrates, was attracted to boys. Daniel Orrells offers a fresh, original examination of how modern thinkers in Germany and Britain, who were so invested in a model of history that directly traced the European present back to an ancient Greek past, negotiated the tricky issue of ancient Greek pederasty. |