《The Greeks and Greek Love》是Weidenfeld & Nicolson出版的圖書，作者是James Davidson
基本介紹
- 書名：The Greeks and Greek Love
- 作者：James Davidson
- 出版社：Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- 出版時間：2007年11月8日
- 頁數：656 頁
- 裝幀：Hardcover
- ISBN：9780297819974
- 價格：GBP 30.00
內容簡介
The message at the core of this virtuosic book is heavily surrounded by packing and then wrapped with a pretty picture. The dustjacket is a kind of antique centrefold: the torso of the Barberini Faun, a sculpture much loved by Winckelmann and De Sade; if it were all visible you would see him flung back sleeping, thighs apart, equipment invitingly in full view. Yet this by no me...(展開全部) The message at the core of this virtuosic book is heavily surrounded by packing and then wrapped with a pretty picture. The dustjacket is a kind of antique centrefold: the torso of the Barberini Faun, a sculpture much loved by Winckelmann and De Sade; if it were all visible you would see him flung back sleeping, thighs apart, equipment invitingly in full view. Yet this by no means epitomises the book inside, which is a highly erudite work of social and cultural history, astonishingly wide-ranging and very lengthy, and, unlike the Faun, not at all titillating. On the contrary, under cover of all the scholarship, it is a kind of paean, a panegyric to the high-mindedness and societal value of homophilia within the ancient Greek world. And, it is obliquely suggested, within ours. It is an epic rhapsody in praise of what James Davidson calls (with a characteristic coinage) "homobesottedness". While bringing out the huge variety of homophilic phenomena in the Greek world, his persistent leitmotifs are the social bridging, the elevated aspirations and the lasting devotion that were the blessings of homobesottedness. His mission is to rehabilitate Greek same-sex love, to rescue it from all the slurs, the associations with unnaturalness, sickness, promiscuity, dirty furtiveness. He sets out to dispel the smut, the orgasm-centred gropings and pokings, above all to obliterate the modern obsession with what he calls "sodomania": besotted does not mean besodding. Take "pederasty", a good Greek word made from paida, boy, and eran, to desire (the verb of eros). This sounds
