Lovers Legends Unbound with CD (Audio) Book

"Lovers' Legends Unbound" is an elegant Audio-CD + Color-illustrated clothbound book gift set. Sit back and listen to nine Greek myths, told with passion and power. These crown jewels of Greek mythology restore the homoerotic element, long censored out of the sacred stories of the Greeks, to its rightful place. Here are HERCULES and HYLAS, in love and together "morning, noon and night;" NARCISSUS who, cursed for spurning another man's love, falls in love with a beautiful boy in a pond; ZEUS braving Hera's jealousy over GANYMEDE, his new lover; POSEIDON falls in love with PELOPS - founder of the Olympic Games - kidnaps him and teaches him; PELOPS, with the help of his old lover wins himself a wife but commits a crime; Pelops pays for that crime when his son is kidnapped and raped in LAIUS AND CHRYSIPPUS; Apollo's beloved youth is killed in APOLLO AND HYACINTH; Achilles' pride costs him the life of his beloved in ACHILLES AND PATROCLUS; and finally, ORPHEUS, the prophet of male love, is murdered by the enraged wives of Thrace in ORPHEUS AND THE THRACIANS. Through Timothy Carter's dramatic readings and Steve Gorn's haunting music, we encounter the spirit of these deeply ethical Greek tales. Under the masterful direction of Agnes Lev, the noted Israeli theater director, their subtle nuances come into vivid relief. Calimach is the author of the acclaimed "Lovers' Legends: The Gay Greek Myths," AÂ? a ForeWord Magazine Silver Book-of-the-Year Award winner finalist in Gay & Lesbian Non-Fiction, and finalist in Education. The book was also a Lambda Book Award finalist in Children / Young Adults and Spirituality categories, and a Ben Franklin Award finalist. "Lovers' Legends Unbound" unveils for the first time our ancestors' myths of male love, which proclaim that self-indulgence, betrayal, and violence are to be despised and that love is the highest good.Read More