Homoerotic themes in Greek and Roman mythology
Abstract This chapter discusses the reception in the Renaissance of the episode of Orpheus found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and argues that the Ovidian Orpheus, who rejects women and teaches the love of boys to his fellow Thracians, is a figure of anxiety in the English Renaissance, largely because his authorial persona combines misogyny with the teaching of pederasty and because of the. This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access. Institutional subscriptions.
The Invention of (Thracian) Homosexuality
Homoeroticism is a prominent theme in Greco-Roman mythology, with many myths depicting intimate and romantic relationships between men. These are accompanied by related motifs such as cross-dressing, androgyny, and fluid expressions of gender and identity – elements now recognised as part of the broader LGBTQ+ spectrum. These myths have been described as being crucially influential on. However, the main courtyard still sho. The Medici family, who ruled Florence for over three hundred years, faced some ups and downs and after Cosimo and his grandson, Lorenzo the Magnificent, ruled the city, the Signoria Florence government forced them into exile. Project MUSE
Orpheus has been a queer icon since even before Eurydice existed, and he lives on in modern queer love stories. There are only five references from antiquity that specifically reference Orpheus’ queer, namely pederastic, love: Phanocles, Ovid, Hyginus, Philargyrius and Virgil, the latter three which follow Ovid, who is believed to have followed Phanocles. Phanocles’ fragment, from his. To browse Academia. Borgeaud ed. Bisexual Orpheus
I just found out that Orpheus was originally gay, and the addition of Eurydice was a later edition. Mind blown. Orpheus has been a queer icon since even before Eurydice existed, and he lives on in modern queer love stories. After one of them is diagnosed with HIV, we follow the couple falling in love as dreamers coming face-to-face with the consequences of their reality. (PDF) Orpheus
Orpheus: he spurned the love of women, or he refused to share his rites with the female sex, or he had seduced husbands away from their wives and taught them to follow his example of loving boys.9 Against this background, it is instructive to compare how Vergil and Ovid handled the issue of Orpheus' pederasty and misogyny. . 
Look Behind You, Orpheus
A queer look into the myth of Orpheus and its use as political propaganda in Florence at the time of the Medici. .
Orpheus and the Medici
Abstract The Ovidian Orpheus, who, after the death of his wife, Eurydice, rejects women, turns to the love of boys, and teaches his fellow Thracians to do the same is an exceptional and problematic figure, not only because his exclusive gender-based sexual tastes (after losing Eurydice) are unusual in antiquity, but also because of his concomitant misogyny, and the fact that he teaches others. . 
Looking Back
Orpheus’s relation to Eurydice [is] an impossible relation: by turning back he betrays her, losing her forever in the lower depths; but the refusal to turn back would count as a betrayal as well. Such is the relation of the queer historian to the past: we cannot help wanting to save the figures from the past, but this mission is doomed to fail. .