Andrew Lear

Andrew Lear got his M.A. from University of Virginia. He did his Ph.D in Harvard University and post doc at Columbia University. He is currently teaching Classics at Florida State University at Tallahassee with several brilliant works some of which are "Greek Pederasty from Homer to Code of Justinian", "Images of Greek Pederasty" with an appendix of the long awaited compilation of De Vries, "Anacreon's Eye Alternative Role Model to Archaic Male".

Along with Thomas Hubbard ranks as the leading authority on Greek Pederasty. He taught English at the University of Rome for several years. At Harvard he taught Italian and won several awards for teaching while auditing a range of classes, most of them in the Classics. He has been a freelance fiction editor for a major New York publisher, and he also has worked as a translator. He was nearly forty when he left the University of Virginia for UCLA. A graduate of Exeter Academy and Harvard College, Andrew Lear achieved his doctoral degree in the Department of Classics, UCLA entitled "Noble Eros: The Idealization of Pederasty From the Greek Dark Ages to the Athens of Socrates." While the subject of vases — specifically the Grecian vessels designed for serving and drinking wine — will take only one chapter in the dissertation, it is a key part of his overall research project. However, even when Andrew was acquiring a master's degree at the University of Virginia, he found that many Classicists were uninformed about the objects, which combined pragmatic purpose with artistic decoration.

More of Andrew's research on vases was included in Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods, co-authored with Eva Cantarella (Routledge 2008). The book discuss 110 vases that depict scenes of pederastic courtship in ancient Greece, with 120 or 130 illustrations.

External links

• Andrew Lear - Wikipedia page
• Vickers' Scandalous Caption and the Library of Congress