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Sexual Hegemony w/ Max Fox and Chris Nealon

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The Role of Antiquity in the Early Modern Period

Chidi writes that a fascination with sodomy in the ancient world loomed large and early modern Italy. Shitti: The homosexuality of ancient Greece must themselves be considered the contingent outcome of a history of class struggle or in the first democratic and republican polities. In artisanal ways, scenes of craft production are same sex organized and facilitate a new form of male eroticism.

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