Everything the flower-loving bee you're named for does, you do, my Melissa, and I take it to
heart. You drop honey from your lips when you sweetly kiss, and when you want money, can�…

This collection of new translations of eighty poems provides a pleasant, thought-provoking
reminder of love's vagaries as captured through the wit, charm, and insight of the master�…

Originally published in 1939, this book presents a selection of some of the most captivating
Greek poetry from antiquity and illumines new nuances of meaning through the author's�…

The ancient Greek novel, despite its main focus on heterosexual romance, features, at times
as a subtheme, Greek love and treats the subject of same‐sex eros with variation and�…

For what I say, my naughty way/All the boys must love me./Every ditty is so witty/Nobody
stands above me. Anacreon of Teos, 563-478 BC From papyrus rolls, copied and recycled�…

This extraordinary collection of poems—covering thirty centuries of poetry from around the
world—celebrates the erotic spirit in all its forms, from the passion of sexual desire to the�…

MUSE of old Hellas, wake again! Thou wert not born to die-And mingle sweet the Classic
strain With Gothic minstrelsy! I feel a tingling in my veins, My heart is beating strong; Let�…

hi le the difficulties confronting the interpreter of poetry from the sparsely documented early
archaic period are always formi dable, they are perhaps most troublesome when they�…

T he so-called Greek novels (or romances), the extant specimens of which date from the first
to the third or fourth century CE, are stories of two young persons who fall madly in love with�…

Elegiac lyrics celebrating the love of boys, which the translator terms Puerilities, comprise
most of the twelfth book of The Greek Anthology. That book, the so-called Musa Puerilis, is�…