Transuming Passion: Ganymede and the Erotics of Humanism

by Leonard Barkan

Book Overview

Transuming Passion places Ganymede, the beautiful boy whom Jupiter loved and abducted to Olympus, at the center of a sumptuously illustrated major essay in the interpretation of myth and history, demonstrating through close readings of works of art and literature how the Middle Ages and the Renaissance defined humanism in erotic and homoerotic-terms.

From Plato onward, the author moves through a long and fascinating history of interpretive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804718512
• ISBN13: 9780804718516
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"