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Classical culture and modern masculinity

by Daniel Orrells

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For nineteenth-century thinkers in Germany and Britain, who looked to Greece as the acme of past civilization, the Greeks' enjoyment of pederasty presented a problem. Daniel Orrells's study explores the way in which this awkward issue was negotiated.

Sex customsHistoryGreece, historySodomyClassicism