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Homosexuality in Greece and Rome:
a sourcebook of basic documents in translation
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A fracas in the music school. This is generally interpreted as the young Heracles killing his music teacher Linus, but could it, in view of the erotic content of the rest of the cup, be interpreted as an attack provoked by the teacher's unwanted sexual advances? Note the nudity of the figures, as if to suggest that more than music is going on here. See Cambridge 3726 for a similar attack by a music student.


Artist Douris
Date c. 470 BCE
   
Museum and Inventory Number Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlung 2646
   
References and Publications ARV2 437.128
D. Buitron-Oliver, Douris: A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases (Mainz 1995) no.173
J. R. Porter, "Orestes the Ephebe," in E. Csapo & M. C. Miller, eds., Poetry, Theory, Praxis: The Social Life of Myth, Word and Image in Ancient Greece (Oxford 2003) 164-65.
   
Other Views of Same Object 77 177
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This website makes available to the public the first two chapters of Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents, edited by Thomas K. Hubbard and published by University of California Press in April 2003. The index also lists the rest of the sourcebook's contents; the book may be ordered at www.ucpress.edu, list price $34.95 paperback. In addition, a file of close to 200 pertinent artistic images is assembled, including those published in the sourcebook and many others. Acknowledgement is made to University of California Press for permission to reproduce this material, as well as to the various museums that have granted permission to use their photographic images. Comments may be directed to Prof. Hubbard at tkh@mail.utexas.edu.