![]() I wanted this book to be that kind of story: one with open arms, with room for everyone who might want to come in. For so many years, books had been homes for me, places I’d found welcome when I couldn’t find it elsewhere. Because while I hoped that at least some classicists might like the book, I wanted this story to be for everyone, whether they knew classics or not, maybe even especially if they didn’t. One of my professors had started his course with the following salvo: “This is a class on Greek history, so I don’t want to hear any questions about women or slaves.” A young woman taking the revered and traditionally male epic material of the Iliad and centring it as a gay love story might not thrill people.īut still I kept writing. Attempts to expand the lens of scholarship have sometimes been met with open hostility, and women and scholars of colour have been undermined and belittled. There is a long history of gatekeeping in classics. I feared that my classics peers and professors would hate the idea. ![]() That summer, I began to write with his voice. ![]()
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