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Nikolai Endres received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2000. As an assistant professor
at Western Kentucky University, he teaches Great Books, British literature,
classics, mythology, and gay and lesbian studies. He has published on
Plato, André Gide, Oscar Wilde, Mary Renault, Gore Vidal, and Petronius. He
is working on a book-length study of Platonic love in Plato’s Symposium
and Phaedrus, Petronius’ Satyricon, Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray,
Forster’s Maurice, Mann’s Death in Venice, Gide’s Corydon, Vidal’s The City
and the Pillar, Renault’s The Charioteer, and Yourcenar’s Memoirs of
Hadrian; as well as a study of Petronius’ Nachleben in modern literature.
Entries by Nikolai Endres
social sciences >> Alcibiades
In glbtq history, Alcibiades is especially noted for his (failed) "seduction" of Socrates in Plato's Symposium, his transgression of gender roles, his sexual "versatility," his violent and unpatriotic eros, and his appropriation as a gay icon in later literature.
social sciences >> Altman, Dennis
Australian political scientist and self-described "international activist-academic" Dennis Altman has studied both the glbtq political movement and the globalization of sexual identities.
social sciences >> Cambridge Apostles
The Cambridge Apostles, founded in 1820 as a secret society at Cambridge University, is significant for the glbtq cultural legacy because it fostered frank discussions of homosexuality, promoted Platonic love, and helped establish Bloomsbury.
literature >> Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, a Cambridge classicist and friend of E. M. Forster, is significant for the glbtq legacy as the author of an immensely popular book on ancient Greece and a posthumously published, surprisingly frank autobiography.
social sciences >> Galli: Ancient Roman Priests
In ancient Rome, the galli were castrated priests of Cybele, the Asian Mother Goddess, and of the Syrian goddess Atagartis; they were widely riducled for their effeminacy, cross-dressing, and sexual passivity.
literature >> Jowett, Benjamin
Benjamin Jowett, classical scholar and translator whose bowdlerization of Plato illustrates the dishonesty made necessary by Victorian homophobia, was probably homosexual in orientation.
literature >> Juvenal
The works of satirist Juvenal are crucial for exploring attitudes toward (homo)sexuality in ancient Rome.
social sciences >> Kertbeny, Károly Mária
Károly Mária Kertbeny, an Austro-Hungarian man of letters, translator, and journalist deserves credit for coining the word homosexual.
social sciences >> Shepard, Matthew
Matthew Shepard led an unremarkable life, but his shocking death transformed him into an icon of the glbtq movement for equality.
arts >> Subjects of the Visual Arts: Harmodius and Aristogeiton
Athenian lovers Harmodius and Aristogeiton were remembered in ancient Greece as the great tyrannicides and celebrated as lovers, patriots, and martyrs.
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