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How to Be Queer : An Ancient Guide to Sexuality (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

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, tragedy, comedy, philosophy, and biography, drawing on a wide range of authors, including Sappho, Plato, Anacreon, Pindar, Theognis, Aristophanes, and Xenophon. It features both beautiful poetry and thought-provoking prose, emotional outpourings and humorous anecdotes. From Homer's story of the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus, one of the most intense between men in world literature, to Sappho's lyrics on the pleasures and pains of loving women, these writings show the many meanings of what the Greeks called eros.

Complete with brief introductions to the selections, How to Be Queer reveals what the Greeks knew long ago—that the erotic and queer are a source of life and a cause for celebration.


Author:

  • Sarah Nooter

Narrator:

  • Paul Boehmer

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 3 h 18 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • History
  • Prehistory
  • Society and Social Sciences
  • Society
  • Society and Social Sciences
  • Gender and LGBT
  • Society and Social Sciences
  • Philosophy

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