Not much was known of the young Antinous before he attracted the attention of the ruler of the Roman world at its zenith. He was born in 111 AD in the Roman province of Bithynia, which would include ...

This short, snappy work of popular scholarship by Will Tosh, head of research at Shakespeare’s Globe, is a necessary provocation and a highly selective bid to claim our national poet as a queer icon.

First, let's get the obvious out of the way: Alexander the Great lived around 350 B.C., so we can't just ask him about his life directly. Instead, historians and archaeologists must use a variety of ...

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TW: Mentions of pederasty and non-consensual sexual activities. The Greek symposium was a respectable affair… until it wasn’t. The men of ancient Greek societies gathered in small groups with their ...

Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri document the tragic and troubled life of Björn Andrésen, an actor thrust into stardom aged 15. Björn Andrésen rocketed to fame after being cast as Tadzio, the ...

The British writer Norman Douglas was so famous during his lifetime (1868-1952) that he frequently turned up as a character in fiction. D H Lawrence, Aldous Huxley and Richard Aldington all put him in ...

Add then the element of the structuring of the sodomitic subculture of Florence at the time exemplified, Dall’Orto again writes, on a “pederastic model” (89.7 percent of the 475 “passives” whose ages ...

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The true nature of the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus, characters in Homer’s Iliad, has long been a source of speculation. Were they friends or lovers? Brothers from other mothers or ...