Seduction of the Mediterranean

Through an explanation of forty figures in European culture ^The Seduction of the Mediterranean> argues that the Mediterranean classical and contemporary was the central theme in homoerotic writing and art from the 1750s to the 1950s. Episodes of exile murder drug-taking wild homosexual orgies and court cases are woven into an original study of a significant theme in European culture. The myth of a homoerotic Mediterranean made a major contribution to general attitudes towards Antiquity the Renaissance and modern Italy and Greece.