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Preface    1. Early Greece: 776-480 BCE   A Millennium of Greek Love   Homer's Iliad   Crete, Sparta, Chalcis   Athletics and the Cult of Beauty   Sappho   Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon   Theognis of Megara   Athens' Rulers   The Tyrannicides    2. Judea: 900 BCE-600 CE   The Judgment of Leviticus   The Threat to Population   Sodom's Gold   Who Were the Kedeshim?   Philo of Alexandria   The Talmud    3. Classical Greece: 480-323 BCE   Pindar's Odes   Greek Tragedy   Phidias   The Comedies of Aristophanes Plato's Symposium   The Phaedrus and the Laws   Xenophon   Aristotle's Dicta   Zeno and the Stoics   Aeschines' Against Timarchus   The Sacred Band of Thebes   Philip and Alexander    4. Rome and Greece: 200 BCE-138 CE   Sexuality and Empire   Cicero and Roman Politics   Greek Love in the Aeneid   Meleager and Callimachus   Catullus and Tibullus   Theocritus and "Corydon"   Horace   Ovid's Myths   Lesbianism   Petronius' Satyricon   Suetonius and the Emperors   Statius, Martial, Juvenal   Hadrian and Antinous    5. Christians and Pagans: 1-565 CE   The Gospels   Intertestamental Judaism and Paul   "Moses" and the Early Church   Greek Love in Late Antiquity   Plutarch's Dialogue on Love   The Lucianic Dialogue   Two Romances and an Epic   Roman Law before Constantine   The Edicts of 342 and 390   Sodom Transformed   Saint John Chrysostom   The Persecutions of Justinian    6. Darkness Descends: 476-1049   The Fall of Rome   Visigothic Spain   Church Councils and Penitentials   The Carolingian Panic   Love in Arab Spain   The Growth of Canon Law   The Book of Gomorrah    7. The Medieval World: 1050-1321   The Fortunes of Ganymede   Scandal in High Places   The Theological Assault   The Inquisition and Its Allies   The Fate of the Templars   Secular Laws: The Sowing   The Harvest Begins   Poets for the Prosecution   Dante's Admirable Sinners    8. Imperial China: 500 BCE-1840   A Peach, a Fish, and a Sleeve   The Han Emperors   Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism   Poets and Lovers   From Tang to Song   Ming China: The West Reacts   Feng Menglong's Anatomy of Love   Fiction and Drama   The Qing Dynasty   The Peking Stage    9. Italy in the Renaissance: 1321-1609   A New Ethos and an Old   Repression in the Italian City States   Death in Venice   Florence: The Price of Love   Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo   Michelangelo: Love, Art, and Guilt   Sodoma and Cellini   Rome and Caravaggio    10. Spain and the Inquisition: 1506-1700   The Spanish Inquisition   Subcultures in Valencia and Madrid   The Inquisition in Portugal   Spain and the New World    11. France from Calvin to Louis XIV: 1517-1715   Outings, Protestant and Catholic   Calvinism and Repression   Henry III and the "Mignons"   The Poets' Revolt 9. Queen Christina   Louis XIII, "The Just"   Monsieur and Madame   Six Generals   Les Lesbiennes    12. England from the Reformation to William III: 1533-1702   Silence and Denial   Monasteries and the Law   Elizabethan Literature   Christopher Marlowe   The Tragedy of Edward II   Shakespeare's Sonnets   James VI and I   Francis Bacon   Puritanism and the Restoration   Between Women   William III in England    13. Pre-Meiji Japan: 800-1868   Europe Discovers Japan   The Buddhist Priesthood   Samurai and Shoguns   No Drama and Kabuki   A Debate and an Anthology   Saikaku's Great Mirror   Tokugawa Finale    14. Patterns of Persecution: 1700-1730   Policing Paris   "Reforming" Britain   Souls in Exile   Witch Hunt in the Netherlands    15. Sapphic Lovers: 1700-1793   Law and Religion   Romance and Innuendo   A Nun and an Actress   An Ill-Fated Queen    16. The Enlightenment: 1730-1810   Montesquieu and Beccaria   Frederick the Great   The Vagaries of Voltaire   Diderot and Sade   Toward Reform   Bentham vs. Blackstone    Conclusion   Notes   Bibliography   Acknowledgments   Illustration Credits   Index

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"How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West with the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, Arab Spain, imperial China, and pre-Meiji Japan."--Jacket

Homosexuality & civilization