Elegy for an erōmenos: Paul Silentiarios, Queer Desire, and Funerary Epigram (AP 7.560)

This essay advances a queer interpretation of a single funerary epigram by the early Byzantine poet Paul Silentiarios (Anthologia Palatina 7.560). The poem commemorates the life of Leontios, a young man from a faraway homeland whose premature death while living abroad (presumably in Constantinople)...

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Published in:	Etnoantropološki Problemi
Main Author:	Steven D. Smith
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Belgrade 2022-12-01
Subjects:	Greek poetry epigram Byzantium Paul Silentiarios queer theory death
Online Access:	https://www.eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/1121