Greek mythology, with its rich erotic diversity, does not delimit sexual desire. It does not judge, condemn, or eliminate. On the contrary, it offers us an image of love as a transformative, dangerous, creative, ancient, and ever-present force.
Myth functions as a mirror of consciousness. In it we see the resilience of a society against desire, the forms that love takes, the voices that are recognized or silenced. In myths, the body is not hidden. On the contrary, the body speaks, is transformed, named, honored or mourned. And thus, it becomes a means of self-knowledge.
The contemporary reading of these stories is not done to "modernize" them or to enlist them in some ideology. It is done because myths do not die. They continue to function as psychic reserves, as logical examples, as aesthetic records. And they always reveal something about the era that reads them.
THE LINE
The new series of Oxy Hysterographa publications, under the direction of Xenophon A. Brountzakis, is inaugurated with a tribute to ancient Greek mythology and the representations of homosexuality in it.
THE CREATOR
THE Xenophon A. Bruntzakis was born in Tinos in 1959. He is the author of many books. He has collaborated regularly or occasionally with various literary magazines, while his articles have been published in the press from time to time. He has collaborated with various publishing houses as a series director and editor, as well as a screenwriter in film and television productions and as a lyricist in record publications. Since 2005 he has been working as an editor at the newspaper To Pontiki.
