300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World

For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world has been ignored or suppressed. Only a few narratives are widely known: Achilles and Patroclus’ wild romance, Sappho’s yearning love, and Plato’s Symposium’s introduction of three genders. Yet, there’s a rich literary tradition of queer Greek and Roman love beyond these familiar stories.

Artist Luke Edward Hall and poet Seán Hewitt collect these stories, including beautiful and moving classical works, and bring them to life. They include rarely anthologized sources like steamy poems, thoughtful dialogues, philosophical treatises, and even a graffiti text from Pompeii. Through their works, we encounter heartfelt, nourishing, unrequited, lustful, toxic, crude, tender, and fulfilling relationships. This anthology seeks to change our perception of the ancient world.

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