300,000 Kisses TALES OF QUEER LOVE FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD By Seán Hewitt and Luke Edward Hall

For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world has either been ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a few narratives are widely known: the wild romance of Achilles and Patroclus; the yearning love of Sappho’s lyrics; and the three genders introduced in Plato’s Symposium. Yet there is a rich literary tradition of queer Greek and Roman love that extends far beyond the prudish translations of these familiar handfuls of stories.

In 300,000 Kisses Hewitt and Hall collect these stories—including some of the most beautiful and moving in the classical canon—and bring them to vivid life. Alongside celebrated works by Homer, Sappho, Ovid and Catullus, they include a wide range of rarely anthologized sources: raunchy poems, thoughtful dialogues, philosophical treatises, and even a graffiti text salvaged from the ruins of Pompeii.

300,000 Kisses is a fascinating journey through love in all its forms, and If you have been good all this year, maybe Santa will bring you your own copy