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assimbya's review
3.0
This title is somewhat misleading - as author Eva Cantarella says in the introduction, our modern designations of homosexual, heterosexual, and bisexual simply didn't exist in ancient Greece and Rome. Thus, I fully understand her reasoning in not titling it 'Homosexuality in the Ancient World', but think that, since this book was not, in fact, a study of the way in which people in the mentioned time periods have demonstrated sexual feelings for both genders, but rather one finding the evidence that homosexual relationships were indeed a part of both cultures...I do think that the title ought to have been changed.
It's an odd book, feeling often to be doing little more than enumerating references without expounding on them in any significant way. Personally, I didn't find it satisfying in the least, even taking into account the often sparse records avaliable (particularly on female homo- and bisexuality). It gave me much useful information, but I didn't find it a substantiative study.
It's an odd book, feeling often to be doing little more than enumerating references without expounding on them in any significant way. Personally, I didn't find it satisfying in the least, even taking into account the often sparse records avaliable (particularly on female homo- and bisexuality). It gave me much useful information, but I didn't find it a substantiative study.
kissingtinyflowers's review
3.0
Okay, so that attempt at trying to read all of it was short lived. I read the parts about Greece for a term paper and it was really interesting and I also think this is a good source. But without like the termpaper stuff the incentive to finish reading this is....just not there. Like, history is important and very interesting, but like...Laws are complicated and not very interesting and I'd rather look something up when I need to know it because from just reading this text I won't remember it. It just isn't for me, dude.
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