Greek Love Reconsidered

by Thomas K. Hubbard (Editor)

Was the Ancient Greek practice of pederasty a rite of pedagogical mentorship and initiation into adulthood, as the Greeks themselves supposed, or exploitation of the vulnerable and weak by the powerful, as some critics have argued? Four respected scholars discuss the institution from different perspectives, with a view to reconstructing the Greeks' own attitudes toward pederasty in their full complexity and chronological evolution. * Thomas K. Hubbard, Pederasty and The Marginalization of a Social Practice
* H. A. Shapiro, Leagros and Painting Pederasty in Athens
* David B. Dodd, Athenian Ideas about Cretan Pederasty
* S. Sara Monoson, The Allure of Harmodius and Aristogeiton
* Thomas K. Hubbard, tr., A Medley of Greek Verse

Genres: History

64 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2000

About the author

Thomas K. Hubbard is an American historian who has written about the topic of homosexuality in Ancient Greece. He served as a professor at the University of Texas (UT) for over 30 years and worked as chair at the American Philological Association's Placement Committee.
Hubbard's 1998 article titled Popular Perceptions of elitist Homosexuality in Classical Athens became influential among critics of the phallocentric paradigm of homosexuality in Ancient Greece, promoted by Michel Foucault and Kenneth Dover, according to which the male act of sexual penetration was seen as an assertion of dominance over women, boys and other men, as opposed to a more pure manifestation of sexual desire. He is also the author of the book Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents (2003).