How many gay men does it take to change an island?

James Davidson’s books include Courtesans and Fishcakes, One Mykonos and The Greeks and Greek Love, which was published last year. He is a reader in ancient history at the University of Warwick.

Other articles by this contributor:

Clinging to the Sides of a Black, Precipitous Hole · James Davidson writes about The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens by Danielle Allen

Mr and Mr and Mrs and Mrs · Why would a guy want to marry a guy?

I told you so! · oracles

At the British Museum · James Davidson visits Persia’s ‘Forgotten Empire’

Himbo · Apollonios Rhodios

Plato Made It Up · Atlantis at Last!

Versailles with Panthers · James Davidson pays tribute to the Persians

Zeus Be Nice Now · Ancient Cults