Abstract
This chapter discusses the methodological issues that arise when studying imaginative representations of love, desire, and affection in ancient world literature. It offers reflections on the kinds of textual material that come into view; considers different possible literary‐critical frameworks for transcultural constellations of texts construed within (and beyond) the emerging corpus; and explores the particular pitfalls and potential of studying the erotics and politics of love in the literatures of the ancient world, both in relation to wider critical discussions on the theory and practice of world literature and to scholarly debates in the history of sexualities, queer studies, and reception studies.
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