Setting Plato Straight: Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance

by Todd W. Reeser

When we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant. For this, we have fifteenth and sixteenth-century European humanists to thank. As these scholars--most of them Catholic--read, digested, and translated Plato, they found themselves faced with a fundamental problem: how to be faithful to the text yet not propagate pederasty or homosexuality.

In Setting Plato Straight, Todd W...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022630700X
• ISBN13: 9780226307008
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"