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GREEK LOVE, ORIENTALISM AND RACE: INTERSECTIONS IN CLASSICAL RECEPTION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2012

Daniel Orrells
Daniel Orrells*
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University of Warwick, UK
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*Email: d.orrells@warwick.ac.uk
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Abstract

Classics has been characterised as both a radical and a conservative discipline. Classical reception studies has enjoyed exploring this paradox: antiquity has provided an erotic example for modern homosexual counter-culture as well as a model for running exploitative empires. This article brings these aspects of reception studies together, to examine how the Victorian homosexual reception of the ancient Greeks was framed and worked out in a particular imperial context at the end of the nineteenth century.

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The Cambridge Classical Journal , Volume 58 , December 2012 , pp. 194 - 230
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2012. Published by Cambridge University Press

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