This article argues that an understanding of male same-sex practices in ancient Greece point towards a queer desirous spectatorship – a male ‘gayze’. Ancient tragic scholarship has often omitted discussion of male same-sex practices, despite using marriage and heterosexual social norms to elucidate meaning in text and performance. This article seeks to redress the exclusion of queer histories and perspectives from understanding tragedy in its social context. The article outlines evidence of male same-sex practices, including pederasty; relates ancient understandings of desire to the gaze; and evidences how and where young men, like those who danced in the tragic chorus, were courted and coveted. The article concludes with a case study of the chorus of young huntsmen from Euripides’ Hippolytus, read through the lens of a desirous gayze.

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雅典男性盖兹：古希腊悲剧中的欲望与旁观者


本文认为，对古希腊男性同性习俗的理解指向一种酷儿渴望的旁观者——男性“gayze”。古老的悲剧学术经常忽略对男性同性习俗的讨论，尽管使用婚姻和异性恋社会规范来阐明文本和表演的意义。本文旨在纠正在社会背景下理解悲剧时对酷儿历史和观点的排斥。文章概述了男性同性行为的证据，包括娈童;将古老的对欲望的理解与凝视联系起来;并证明了年轻人，比如那些在悲剧合唱团中跳舞的人，是如何以及在哪里受到追求和觊觎的。文章以欧里庇得斯的《希波吕托斯》中年轻猎人合唱的案例研究作为结尾，通过一个渴望的 gayze 的镜头来阅读。