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Symposiaka

ISSN 1527-2273

Symposiaka 1: 
Millennium, Madness & Meyhem:
Eschatology East & West

Collected Volume.... Millennium, Madness & Mayhem: Eschatology in the Western Tradition, 5-6 May 2000. The goal was to examine end times from a multidisciplinary and cultural historical perspective with as wide a scope as possible, including papers on ancient history, classical philology, near eastern archaeology, biblical studies, art history, and Jewish studies. The original impetus was the dawn of a new millennium. Continued news and fears around recent events in the Middle East, the tragedy of September 11th, and fears of outbreaks of diseases like smallpox and Ebola make it evident that anxieties felt about the millennium were not isolated, but rather part of a larger social issue. The intent is to put the many fears of collapse and change into a larger historical perspective. All papers seek to address issues around catastrophic change or destruction, both imagined and real, in literature, art, history and philosophy.

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Symposiaka 2: 
Beyond Marriage: 
Configurations of Same-Sex Bonding 
in the Ancient Mediterranean

Collected Volume
Sheldon Lee Gosline, Series Editor
Jerise Fogel, Volume Editor

ISBN 0-9714683-2-X
$39.50 Cloth Bound
Publication expected Early 2005

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This book takes the discussion of the role of same-sex sexuality in ancient society beyond issues of marriage and legal constraints, into ideas about the role of same-sex bonding and pairing as they affect and are affected by Greek and Roman social institutions.  

Some issues dealt with by these papers are:  the level of legality same-sex weddings conferred (and did not confer); the Patroklos-Akhilleus bond as seen in respect of references to marriage by Briseis; the homosociality of the appeal of Ovid’s Fasti; and the long-term homosocial bonding of masters and disciples in early Christian desert communities.  

The papers in this volume formed part of the Lambda Classical Association’s annual panel at the 2002 meeting of the American Philological Association and Archaeological Institute of America, which took place in Philadelphia, PA.

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