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The best books on Same Sex Love in the Ancient World

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By Mary Renault, Theodore Jennings, Martti Nissinen
| Five Books
We’re talking about same sex love in the ancient world. Why is this an important subject to study, or what does it illuminate? Most of the arguments that are advanced against same-sex love, and indeed against all queer lives, are often rooted in ancient texts like the Bible. They may also be rooted in what are often described as ‘common sense’ views on gender or sex, which have ancient origins.
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Historical Novels Set During the Classical Era

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By Mary Renault, Steven Pressfield, Robert Harris, Robert Graves
| Five Books
Glorious Exploits, your Nero Book Award-shortlisted debut novel, is set in ancient Sicily during the Peloponnesian War. What drew you to historical fiction, and to the Classical era specifically? I’ve always been fascinated by ancient Greece and ancient Rome, particularly ancient Greece: the myths, the drama, the history.
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Boek | The Persian Boy - Mary Renault

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By Mary Renault
| hebban.nl
The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas is sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but finds freedom with Alexander the Great after the Macedon army conquers his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alexander as he weathers assassination plots, the demands of two foreign wives, a sometimes mutinous army, and his own ferocious temper.
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