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Queer Stories of Europe Queer Stories of Europe

2016

Gay and Lesbian Literature as a Historical and Geographical Phenomenon Many books have been written about what gay and lesbian literature is. 1 Now, in the second decade of the 21 st century, the question of where gay and lesbian literature is becomes more relevant. In my opinion the centre for gay and lesbian literature is not in Paris or New York anymore, instead this centre is now in cities like Budapest or Riga. What I mean by that is that I do not understand gay and lesbian literature (GLL) as a category of literary aesthetics, but rather as a category of literary sociology and anthropology. GLL is an example of "community literature," or more precisely, it is one of the types of literature cultivated by subcultures in modern and post-modern society. These "community literatures" are not primarily driven by aesthetics, but by a function of community building and of representing the community in the cultural mainstream. In some cases this type of representation can take on a rather missionary accent,

YearEventc. 3250 BCE

A neolithic herdsman dies near the Brenner Pass and is perfectly preserved in ice - to become, in 1991, by far the earliest human to be glimpsed in his everyday life, clothed and with implements

Go to Similaun Man in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.)

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753 BCE

This year is later selected by Roman scholars as the date of the founding of Rome, becoming the first year (AUC 1) in Roman chronology

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c. 750 BCE

The Etruscans establish Italy's first civilization, in the region between the Arno and the Tiber

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c. 700 BCE

The island of Sicily is colonized from the eastern Mediterranean by both Phoenicians and Greeks

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c. 550 BCE

The murals of Etruscan tombs, such as the To

YearEventc. 2800 BCE

The harp and the lyre are in use as musical instruments in Mesopotamia

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c. 1500 BCE

A copper trumpet is in use in Egypt, forerunner of the brass instruments of the orchestra

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c. 600 BCE

The choros, originally danced in a circle by temple virgins, is the centrepiece of the developing Greek theatre

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Frenzied dances, in honour of the god Dionysus, become part of Greek theatre - deriving probably from the northeast, in Thrace

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534 BCE

Thespis, traditionally considered the first actor, wins the drama competition in Athens

Go to Thespis in The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)

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