Daniel Orrells

Daniel Orrells examines how the pederastic-pedagogic relationship, as exemplified in Plato's texts, became a site for conceptualizing the nature of the relationship between antiquity and modernity itself: precisely what did the Socratic teacher teach his pupil? What was the relationship between toon meer older man and male youth? And how did this relationship inform modern discussions about the relationship between one generation and the next, as well as between ancient and modern worlds? What sort of man did the reading of ancient Greek generate? From the work of Johann Matthias Gesner, the very first professor of philology at Gttingen, to Benjamin Jowett's Oxford, to the Oscar Wilde trials in London, to Sigmund Freud's studies in Vienna, the meaning of ancient Greek desires for modern masculinity is explored and examined. toon minder