Preface

1. Early Greece: 776-480 BCE

A Millennium of Greek Love

Homer's Iliad

Crete, Sparta, Chalcis

Athletics and the Cult of Beauty

Sappho

Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon

Theognis of Megara

Athens' Rulers

The Tyrannicides

2. Judea: 900 BCE-600 CE

The Judgment of Leviticus

The Threat to Population

Sodom's Gold

Who Were the Kedeshim?

Philo of Alexandria

The Talmud

3. Classical Greece: 480-323 BCE

Pindar's Odes

Greek Tragedy

Phidias

The Comedies of Aristophanes Plato's Symposium

The Phaedrus and the Laws

Xenophon

Aristotle's Dicta

Zeno and the Stoics

Aeschines' Against Timarchus

The Sacred Band of Thebes

Philip and Alexander

4. Rome and Greece: 200 BCE-138 CE

Sexuality and Empire

Cicero and Roman Politics

Greek Love in the Aeneid

Meleager and Callimachus

Catullus and Tibullus

Theocritus and "Corydon"

Horace

Ovid's Myths

Lesbianism

Petronius' Satyricon

Suetonius and the Emperors

Statius, Martial, Juvenal

Hadrian and Antinous

5. Christians and Pagans: 1-565 CE

The Gospels

Intertestamental Judaism and Paul

"Moses" and the Early Church

Greek Love in Late Antiquity

Plutarch's Dialogue on Love

The Lucianic Dialogue

Two Romances and an Epic

Roman Law before Constantine

The Edicts of 342 and 390

Sodom Transformed

Saint John Chrysostom

The Persecutions of Justinian

6. Darkness Descends: 476-1049

The Fall of Rome

Visigothic Spain

Church Councils and Penitentials

The Carolingian Panic

Love in Arab Spain

The Growth of Canon Law

The Book of Gomorrah

7. The Medieval World: 1050-1321

The Fortunes of Ganymede

Scandal in High Places

The Theological Assault

The Inquisition and Its Allies

The Fate of the Templars

Secular Laws: The Sowing

The Harvest Begins

Poets for the Prosecution

Dante's Admirable Sinners

8. Imperial China: 500 BCE-1840

A Peach, a Fish, and a Sleeve

The Han Emperors

Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism

Poets and Lovers

From Tang to Song

Ming China: The West Reacts

Feng Menglong's Anatomy of Love

Fiction and Drama

The Qing Dynasty

The Peking Stage

9. Italy in the Renaissance: 1321-1609

A New Ethos and an Old

Repression in the Italian City States

Death in Venice

Florence: The Price of Love

Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo

Michelangelo: Love, Art, and Guilt

Sodoma and Cellini

Rome and Caravaggio

10. Spain and the Inquisition: 1506-1700

The Spanish Inquisition

Subcultures in Valencia and Madrid

The Inquisition in Portugal

Spain and the New World

11. France from Calvin to Louis XIV: 1517-1715

Outings, Protestant and Catholic

Calvinism and Repression

Henry III and the "Mignons"

The Poets' Revolt 9. Queen Christina

Louis XIII, "The Just"

Monsieur and Madame

Six Generals

Les Lesbiennes

12. England from the Reformation to William III: 1533-1702

Silence and Denial

Monasteries and the Law

Elizabethan Literature

Christopher Marlowe

The Tragedy of Edward II

Shakespeare's Sonnets

James VI and I

Francis Bacon

Puritanism and the Restoration

Between Women

William III in England

13. Pre-Meiji Japan: 800-1868

Europe Discovers Japan

The Buddhist Priesthood

Samurai and Shoguns

No Drama and Kabuki

A Debate and an Anthology

Saikaku's Great Mirror

Tokugawa Finale

14. Patterns of Persecution: 1700-1730

Policing Paris

"Reforming" Britain

Souls in Exile

Witch Hunt in the Netherlands

15. Sapphic Lovers: 1700-1793

Law and Religion

Romance and Innuendo

A Nun and an Actress

An Ill-Fated Queen

16. The Enlightenment: 1730-1810

Montesquieu and Beccaria

Frederick the Great

The Vagaries of Voltaire

Diderot and Sade

Toward Reform

Bentham vs. Blackstone

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Illustration Credits

Index