Join the Queer@King’s Reading Group as they discuss Ancient Female Homoeroticism. 

In honour of ‘Queer@King’s goes to Church with Riognach Sachs’ we are holding a reading session and discussion focusing on the texts and the challenges of transhistorical approaches to history and sexuality.

Readings 

• Sappho fragment 1
• Plato, Symposium, Aristophanes’ speech, 189c-193e
• Extract from Brooten, Love Between Women (1996) pp. 73-95
• Ovid, Metamorphoses, book 9, lines 666-797Phaedrus, Fabulae, book 4, fable 14

If you do not have access to the readings, please email queer@kcl.ac.uk.