HISC 27 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Heterosexuality, Amy Richlin, Orgasm
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There is grave importance of male love in athens and rome. Fredrich-karl forberg in the 1820s and hans licht (paul brandt) and theodore hopfner in the 1930s, highlighted the prevalence of male homosexuality in antiquity but their work lay outside the mainstream of classical studies. Ancient homosexuality was not really broken until the early 1970s when scholars such as jeffrey henderson and john boardman opened up the field. A crucial factor generating greater interest in ancient homosexuality was the 1970s gay liberation movement and the project for a gay history that uncovered the rich tapestry of homosexual life and culture in past times. This gay veneration of classical antiquity, however, was questioned by feminists like eva. Keuls, who argued that ancient athens was an intensely misogynist culture, where the symbolic and literal use of the phallus signified social dominance. Dover defined homosexuality as a preference for sensory pleasure with persons of one"s own sex .
