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'''Simon David Goldhill'''(born 17 March 1957) is Professor in Greek literature and | {{Template:Ac}}'''Simon David Goldhill''' (born 17 March 1957) is Professor in Greek literature and Culture, and fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at King's College, Cambridge.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Goldhill Simon Goldhill] - Wikipedia</ref> | ||
He criticized the pathologization of [[Hebephilia|hebephilia]]<ref>Simon Goldhill, [https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1007/s10508-015-0556-7 ‘The Imperialism of Historical Arrogance: Where Is the Past in the DSM's Idea of Sexuality?’], in ''Archives of Sexual Behaviour'', 44:5 (2015), 1099-1108 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0556-7>.</ref> and opposed the concealment of the sexual nature of man-boy relations in ancient Greece. | He criticized the pathologization of [[Hebephilia|hebephilia]]<ref>Simon Goldhill, [https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1007/s10508-015-0556-7 ‘The Imperialism of Historical Arrogance: Where Is the Past in the DSM's Idea of Sexuality?’], in ''Archives of Sexual Behaviour'', 44:5 (2015), 1099-1108 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0556-7>.</ref> and opposed the concealment of the sexual nature of man-boy relations in ancient Greece. | ||
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::''"But fortunately for historians, Ancient Greek pederasty is always there to throw a spanner in the machine of the ideologues who believe that human sexuality has a natural and ineluctably proper form."'' | ::''"But fortunately for historians, Ancient Greek pederasty is always there to throw a spanner in the machine of the ideologues who believe that human sexuality has a natural and ineluctably proper form."'' | ||
::''"Greek pederasty is argued over so intently because it poses so sharply the question of the nature of male desire in society."''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100601011456/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=402339§ioncode=26 Simon Goldhill's review] on ''[https://libgen.is/search.php?req=Images+of+Ancient+Greek+Pederasty&lg_topic=libgen&open=0&view=simple&res=25&phrase=1&column=def Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods]'' (By Andrew Lear and Eva Cantarella)</ref> | ::''"Greek pederasty is argued over so intently because it poses so sharply the question of the nature of male desire in society."''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100601011456/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=402339§ioncode=26 Simon Goldhill's review] on ''[https://libgen.is/search.php?req=Images+of+Ancient+Greek+Pederasty&lg_topic=libgen&open=0&view=simple&res=25&phrase=1&column=def Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods]'' (By [[Andrew Lear]] and Eva Cantarella) ([https://web.archive.org/web/20200813001014/http://williamapercy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Simon_Goldhill a copy] from Percy wiki)</ref> | ||
== Major publications == | == Major publications == | ||
Explore Goldhill's work [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0npqnKoAAAAJ&hl=nl&oi=ao through Google Scholar], or view his books via [https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Simon%20Goldhill Annas Archive here]. | |||
*Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History, Cambridge University Press, 2025, ISBN 978-1009528061 | |||
*The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 2022, ISBN 978-1-316-51290-6 | *The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 2022, ISBN 978-1-316-51290-6 | ||
*Preposterous Poetics: The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 2020, ISBN 978-1-108-86002-4 | *Preposterous Poetics: The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 2020, ISBN 978-1-108-86002-4 | ||
Latest revision as of 23:19, 12 October 2025
Simon David Goldhill (born 17 March 1957) is Professor in Greek literature and Culture, and fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at King's College, Cambridge.[1]
He criticized the pathologization of hebephilia[2] and opposed the concealment of the sexual nature of man-boy relations in ancient Greece.
- "But fortunately for historians, Ancient Greek pederasty is always there to throw a spanner in the machine of the ideologues who believe that human sexuality has a natural and ineluctably proper form."
- "Greek pederasty is argued over so intently because it poses so sharply the question of the nature of male desire in society."[3]
Major publications
Explore Goldhill's work through Google Scholar, or view his books via Annas Archive here.
- Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History, Cambridge University Press, 2025, ISBN 978-1009528061
- The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 2022, ISBN 978-1-316-51290-6
- Preposterous Poetics: The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 2020, ISBN 978-1-108-86002-4
- A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain, University of Chicago Press, 2016
- Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy, Oxford University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-199-79627-4
- Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave, University of Chicago Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-226-30131-0
- The End of Dialogue in Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-88774-8 (editor)
- Jerusalem: City of Longing, Harvard University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-674-02866-1
- How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today, University of Chicago Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-226-30128-0
- Being Greek Under Rome: Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and the Development of Empire, Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-03087-8 (editor)
- Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-86212-7 (co-editor with Robin Osborne)
- The Temple of Jerusalem, Harvard University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-674-06189-7
- Love, Sex and Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives, University of Chicago Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-226-30117-4 Excerpt
- The Invention of Prose, Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-198-52523-3
- Who Needs Greek?: Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-521-81228-3
- Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-521-64247-7 (co-editor with Robin Osborne)
- Foucault's Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality, Cambridge University Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-521-47372-9
- Art and Text in Greek Culture, Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-521-41185-1 (co-editor with Robin Osborne)
- The Poet's Voice: Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature, Cambridge University Press, 1991, ISBN 978-0-521-39062-0
- Reading Greek Tragedy, Cambridge University Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0-521-31579-1
- Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The Oresteia, Cambridge University Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-521-26535-5
References
- ↑ Simon Goldhill - Wikipedia
- ↑ Simon Goldhill, ‘The Imperialism of Historical Arrogance: Where Is the Past in the DSM's Idea of Sexuality?’, in Archives of Sexual Behaviour, 44:5 (2015), 1099-1108 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0556-7>.
- ↑ Simon Goldhill's review on Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods (By Andrew Lear and Eva Cantarella) (a copy from Percy wiki)