In ancient times, the Greek god Eros personified both heterosexual and homosexual attractions. This book explores the homosexual side of the vanished civilizations of Greece and Rome, and the resulting influence on the classical tradition of the West. Iconography such as vase decoration and carved gemstones is presented in photographs. Preface xv Introduction 1(12) Beert C. Verstraete, PhD Vernon Provencal, PhD Reconsiderations About Greek Homosexualities 13(50) William Armstrong Percy, III, PhD The Dispersion of Pederasty and the Athletic Revolution in Sixth-Century BC Greece 63(24) Thomas F. Scanlon, PhD Glukus Himeros: Pederastic Influence on the Myth of Ganymede 87(50) Vernon Provencal, PhD Pindar's Tenth Olympian and Athlete-Trainer Pederasty 137(36) Thomas Hubbard, PhD Boeotian Swine: Homosexuality in Boeotia 173(20) Charles Hupperts, PhD "Sleeping in the Bosom of a Tender Companion": Homoerotic Attachments in Sappho 193(16) Anne L. Klinck, PhD Some Myths and Anomalies in the Study of Roman Sexuality 209(62) James L. Butrica, PhD Representations of the Cinaedus in Roman Art: Evidence of "Gay" Subculture? 271(28) John R. Clarke, PhD The Originality of Tibullus' Marathus Elegies 299(16) Beert C. Verstraete, PhD On Kissing and Sighing: Renaissance Homoerotic Love from Ficino's De Amore and Sopra Lo Amore to Cesare Trevisani's L'impresa (1569) 315(26) Armando Maggi, PhD Light in Hellas: How German Classical Philology Engendered Gay Scholarship 341(16) Wayne R. Dynes, PhD Hellenism and Homoeroticism in Shelley and His Circle 357(20) John Lauritsen The Greek Mirror: The Uranians and Their Use of Greece 377(44) D.H. Mader, BA, MDiv Eros Underground: Greece and Rome in Gay Print Culture, 1953-65 421(42) Amy Richlin, PhD Table of Abbreviations 463(2) Index of Names and Terms 465(10) Index Locorum 475(10) General Index 485