Sarah Nooter
Author
Publisher
HighBridge Company
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The idea of sexual fluidity may seem new, but it is at least as old as the ancient Greeks, who wrote about queer experiences with remarkable frankness, wit, and insight. How to Be Queer is an infatuating collection of these writings about desire, love, and lust between men, between women, and between humans and gods, in lucid and lively new translations.
How to Be Queer starts with Homer's Iliad and moves through lyric poetry,...
How to Be Queer starts with Homer's Iliad and moves through lyric poetry,...
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In recent years, sexual fluidity has increasingly entered mainstream consciousness. However, the ancient Greeks got there long ago, and often with little angst and much wit, insight, and depth. Surviving texts from Archaic and Classical Greece offer glimpses of queer love and life in poetry, prose, and plays They also make evident a Greek willingness to countenance and experimentation with sexuality, gender, and the erotic. As classicist Sarah Nooter...
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