Recently added articles from Helios:
Introduction.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Historical figures from ancient Greece and Rome have played a vital part in the construction of modern queer identities, via both identification and difference. (1) The politics of sexuality has in turn influenced both the study of such figures and their representation in creative and ...
Sculpting Antinous.
Sep 22, 2008; ... A recent exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds crowned Antinous "the face of the Antique," prompting the London Times reviewer to compare the Roman era's "pouter extraordinaire" with the commercial appeal of Calvin Klein models and David Beckham (Irving 2006). Indeed, Antinous ...
Lesbians Are From Lesbos: Sappho and identity construction in The Ladder.
Sep 22, 2008; ... The Daughters of Bilitis, a small lesbian club in San Francisco, typed, mimeographed, and distributed 100 copies of the first issue of their monthly newsletter in October 1956, inaugurating the sixteen-year run of The Ladder. (1) Brian O'Brien, a member of the DOB, provided an illustration ...
From 'filthy catamite' to 'queer icon': Elagabalus and the politics of sexuality (1960-1975).
Sep 22, 2008; ... Elagabalus. The name evokes an image of a depraved sybarite "treading in silver dust and sand of gold, his head crowned with a tiara and his clothes studded with jewels, working at women's tasks in the midst of his eunuchs, calling himself Empress and bedding every night with a new ...
The trouble with icons: recent ideological appropriations of Plato's Symposium.
Sep 22, 2008; ... The Symposium is among other things a criticism of pederasty. (Strauss 2001) Plato was himself homosexual. (Harvey 1997) I am interested in the queer iconic afterlife of Aristophanes' "Encomium to Eros" (Symp. 189d-93D), and in this article I ...