'Simon David Goldhill FBA (born 17 March 1957) is Professor in Greek literature and culture and fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at King's College, Cambridge. He was previously Director of Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge, succeeding Mary Jacobus in October 2011. He is best known for his work on Greek tragedy'.
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'The sexy, witty and often bizarre novels, poetry and dialogues of the firstr centuries of this era (works such as Longus' "Daphnis and Chloe", Achilles Tatius' "Leucippe and Cleitophon" and Plutarch's "Amatorius") were being composed at the sdame time as fundamental ideas about the body, gender and sexuality were being set in place with the rise of Christianty and the Church to dominate the pagan world.
Modern writers on the history of sexuality have largely ignored this literature in favour of prose treatises, philosophy and Christian homilies.
Simon Goldhill, writing with the same wit and verve as the ancient writers he engages with, sets out to put these texts back into the history of sexuality. The result is a dazzling celebration of sex and sexuality in the Greek literature of the first centuries CE.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in many fields: it is a lively and readable contribution to literary criticism, classiscal studies and the history of the novel; to the discourse of sexuality and gender studies; and to early Christian studies and theology. All Greek is translated'.

'Michel Foucault was een Frans filosoof, bekend vanwege zijn politiek activisme in de jaren 70 en 80 en zijn analyses in de politieke filosofie via begrippen als disciplinemaatschappij, biopolitiek en biomacht.
Geboren: 15 oktober 1926, Poitiers, Frankrijk
Overleden: 25 juni 1984, 13e arrondissement, Parijs, Frankrijk'.
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