300,000 Kisses - queer love tales from the ancient world

For centuries, traces of queer love in the ancient world have been forgotten or removed. Even today, only a few testimonies are remembered: the wild love between Achilles and Patroclus, the painful one that emerges from Sappho's texts and the three genres introduced by Plato's Symposium. Yet, there is a rich literary tradition of queer love from the Greek and Latin eras that goes far beyond the prurient translations of a few well-known works. In “300,000 Kisses,” award-winning poet Seán Hewitt and distinguished artist Luke Edward Hall bring together a wealth of stories, including some of the most beautiful and touching in the classical canon, and bring them to life. Alongside the celebrated verses of Homer, Sappho, Ovid and Catullus, a vast range of works rarely reported in anthologies is revealed: erotic poems, intense dialogues, philosophical dissertations and even the text of a graffito saved from the ruins of Pompeii. Thanks to Hewitt's literary sensibility and Hall's vivid illustrations, we discover relationships that are at once spiritual or lustful, tender or raw, immortal or tormented. An unmissable anthology capable of changing our gaze on the ancient world, “300.00 baci” is a fascinating journey through love in all its forms