[LCC] CLAGS Classics Event - March 18, 7pm, GC 9206-7

[Michael Broder]

Thursday, March 18

New Perspectives on Same-Sex Desire in Classical Antiquity

CLAGS LGBTQ Panel Discussion

CUNY Graduate Center

Room 9206-7

7-9 PM

 

Athenian vase-painting is one of our best sources of information about
pederasty, the system of erotic relations between adult men and adolescent
boys prevalent in ancient Greece. Prof. Lear will examine the way
vase-painters portrayed pederastic desire and what these images tell us
about ancient views of sex and sexuality.

 

Prof. Smith will explore poetic representations of same-sex desire in
Constantinople where, amid fear inspired by the Emperor Justinian's
persecution of homosexuals, poets adopted closeted strategies for
representing the unspeakable.

 

Panelists:

Andrew Lear, Assistant Professor of Classics at Pomona College, is
co-author, with Eva Cantarella, of Images of Greek Pederasty: Boys Were
Their Gods

 

Steven D. Smith, Assistant Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
at Hofstra University, and author of Greek Identity and the Athenian Past in
Chariton: The Romance of Empire