300,000 kisses. queer love stories from the ancient world
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For centuries, traces of queer love in the ancient world have been forgotten or erased. Even today, only a few testimonies are remembered: the wild love between Achilles and Patroclus, the painful one that emerges from the texts of Sappho, and the three genders introduced by Plato's Symposium. Yet, there exists a rich literary tradition of queer loves from the Greek and Latin eras that goes far beyond the titillating translations of a few well-known works. In "300,000 Kisses," the award-winning poet Seán Hewitt and the illustrious artist Luke Edward Hall gather a wealth of stories, including some of the most beautiful and touching from the classical canon, bringing them back to life. Alongside the celebrated verses of Homer, Sappho, Ovid, and Catullus, a vast array of works rarely included in anthologies is revealed: erotic poems, intense dialogues, philosophical dissertations, and even the text of a graffiti saved from the ruins of Pompeii. Thanks to Hewitt's literary sensitivity and Hall's vivid illustrations, we discover relationships that are at once spiritual or lustful, tender or raw, immortal or tormented. An unmissable anthology capable of changing our perspective on the ancient world, "300,000 Kisses" is a fascinating journey through love in all its forms.
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