📗 Libro en inglés THE QUEER THING ABOUT SIN

BOLD AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN TOM HOLLAND MY GOD THIS BOOK IS NEEDED HISTORY HAS NEVER SEEMED MORE ALIVE RUSSELL T DAVIES A gripping new journey through ancient history uncovering the origins of homophobia and the untold stories of those who dared to love In the early days of ancient Greece queer love was celebrated The most famous warrior in antiquity loved another man the poet whose lyrics were memorised by philosophers and kings sang of her desire for women Men could swear oaths of undying love and live out the rest of their lives together in peace What fragments survive of this ancient world all tell us one thing it was not a sin to be queer In this extraordinary book Harry Tanner sets out on a journey to discover the origins of homophobia in the West From the rise of belligerent tyrants to civil unrest and the birth of radical new philosophies Tanner follows the traces of this sinister idea as it swept across the ancient Mediterranean Wherever he discovers the roots of homophobia taking hold from ancient Judea to imperial Rome Tanner finds a confluence of crises mirrored across the centuries Inequality fear and an obsession with self control this is how societies turn on their queer citizens time and time again since the dawn of hist