#  Under the Great Mother's Sway: an excursion through Martial book three 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 23, 2024** 

 12:00PM - 12:00PM EST 

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 **Barker Center, Room 133**  



 

 



 

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[CIVILIZATIONS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME](/civilizations-ancient-greece)

##  SPEAKER: Thomas Sapsford, Boston College

 Tom Sapsford is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Boston College. Tom's research interests include performance, gender, and sexuality in both ancient Greek and Roman contexts with a specialization in imperial Latin verse. His first book, *Performing the Kinaidos: Unmanly Men in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures*, explored a figure called the kinaidos/cinaedus, who is known in antiquity for his outrageous gender performance and sexuality as well as for his distinctive style of song and dance. Sapsford is currently working on a new book project, provisionally entitled *Classics and the Gay Counterculture*, that looks at how a group of writers, artists, and activists from the 1950s onward used Greco-Roman culture in their work when facing criminalization, liberation in the wake of the Stonewall riots, the AIDS epidemic, and its aftermath.

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 See also:- [ Seminar ](/event-type/seminar)
- [ Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome ](/seminars/civilizations-ancient-greece)
 
 

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