300000 BACI - RACCONTI D'AMORE QUEER DAL MONDO ANTICO

For centuries, traces of queer love in the ancient world have been forgotten or erased. Even today, only a few testimonies are remembered: the wild love between Achilles and Patroclus, the painful one that emerges from the texts of Sappho, the three genders introduced by Plato's Symposium... Yet, there is a rich literary tradition of queer loves from the Greco-Latin period. Poet Seán Hewitt and eclectic artist Luke Edward Hall collect a large number of stories, including some of the most beautiful and touching from the classical canon, bringing them back to life. Alongside the celebrated verses of Homer, Sappho, Ovid, and Catullus, a wide range of works rarely included in anthologies is revealed: erotic poems, intense dialogues, philosophical dissertations, and even the text of a graffiti saved from the ruins of Pompeii. An unmissable anthology capable of changing our view of the ancient world, a fascinating journey through love in all its forms.