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  • Published: 7 November 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241575734
  • Imprint: Particular Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $55.00

300,000 Kisses

Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World




A landmark illustrated anthology of queer Ancient Greek and Roman love stories

For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a few, famous narratives are widely known - yet there's a rich literary tradition of Greek and Roman love that extends far beyond this handful of stories. Here, the poet Seán Hewitt and painter Luke Edward Hall collect together, for the first time, forty of the most exhilarating queer tales in the classical canon and bring them newly to life. A ground-breaking anthology that changes the way we see the ancient world - and invites us to reflect on the puritanism of our own - 300,000 Kisses is a riotous celebration of desire in all its forms.

  • Published: 7 November 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241575734
  • Imprint: Particular Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $55.00

About the authors

Seán Hewitt

Sean Hewitt was born in 1990 and read English at the University of Cambridge. He is a fiction reviewer for the Irish Times and a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. He won a Northern Writers' Award in 2016, the Resurgence Prize in 2017 and an Eric Gregory Award in 2019.

Praise for 300,000 Kisses

This lithe, rich anthology of stunning poetry and beguiling stories of queer love from the ancient world pulses with desire, lust, loss and seduction... Scintillating... An essential addition to any library

Uli Lenart, Attitude magazine