HOW TO BE QUEER

From Homers story of the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus, one of the most intense between men in world literature, to Sapphos lyrics on the pleasures and pains of loving women, these writings show the many meanings of what the Greeks called eros. Complete with brief introductions to the selections, and with the original Greek on facing pages, How to Be Queer reveals what the Greeks knew long agothat the erotic and queer are a source of life and a cause for celebration.