Greater freedom marks a new chapter just in time for the holidays. But whatever your plans, a good tome will always take you beyond borders.
The ancient Greeks’ tolerance for – indeed celebration of – male homosexuality is hardly breaking news. And yet in this enthralling work, American classicist James Romm casts an illuminating light on a familiar theme by teasing out from the historical record the little-known story of 300 Theban warrior-lovers: comrades in arms in more ways than one.
“The Holocaust played a shockingly small part in the consciousness of most Germans of the post-war period. Some people were aware of the crimes on the Eastern Front, and a certain fundamental guilt at having started the war in the first place was acknowledged, but there was no room in many people’s thoughts and feelings for the murder of millions of German and European Jews.”
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