This duet for a young man and an elderly man brings together contemporary narratives with figures of the philosopher Socrates and his young disciple and lover Alcibiades.
Socrates
Great Men of Antiquity
Again we may say that all the great men of antiquity were sodomites: Socrates, Caesar, Alexander, Martial, Catullus, Virgil, Achilles; Napoleon, Frederick the Great, Goethe, Shakespeare, Bacon, an unbroken line of English monarchs; […]