Greco-Romoeroticism feat. Stephen Zerance
Jan 01, 2024•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 68
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Episode description
Poet Stephen Zerance joins me to talk about Greek poet C.P. Cavafy and four greco-roman films (Sebastiane, Caligula, Alexander, and 300).
We talk about homoeroticism in these kinds of films as well as in Cavafy's verse.
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Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/stephnz
Substack: https://stephenzerance.substack.com/
Buy his poetry: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07HS2YXW2/allbooks?ingress=0&visitId=fcbef3af-3838-432b-8206-fa7de7875958&ref_=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1
We also have previous guests of the pod reading some of Cavafy's poems that we have paired with the films.
Zach Langley Chi Chi reads "In Despair"
Young Dean reads "The City"
Kelby Losack reads "Waiting for the Barbarians"
Steff reads "Thermopylae"
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