Mark Masterson is Associate Professor of Classics at Te Herenga Waka/Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood (2014), as well as a number of articles and book chapters on sexuality and masculinity. He is also one of editors of the collection, Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World (2015).

• Introduction / Chapter One: Eroticism and Desire in Epistolography / Chapter Two: Histories of Masculine Beauty and Desire: The Case of Emperor Basil I / Chapter Three: Framing the Brotherhoods of Emperor Basil I / Appendix of Prayers / Chapter Four: Revisiting the Bachelorhood of Emperor Basil II / Conclusion

‘… this book is highly stimulating and delightful. Masterson has a gift for covering much ground economically and with sophistication and verve. His readings are lucid and mostly compelling, despite the complexity of ideas’ - Speculum 98/4 (October 2023).‘Masterson’s book is a meaningful contribution to those seeking to undertake a queer approach to Byzantine sources’ - Journal of the History of Sexuality, Volume 32, Number 3, September 2023.

Mark Masterson is Associate Professor of Classics at Te Herenga Waka/Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood (2014), as well as a number of articles and book chapters on sexuality and masculinity. He is also one of editors of the collection, Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World (2015).

• Introduction / Chapter One: Eroticism and Desire in Epistolography / Chapter Two: Histories of Masculine Beauty and Desire: The Case of Emperor Basil I / Chapter Three: Framing the Brotherhoods of Emperor Basil I / Appendix of Prayers / Chapter Four: Revisiting the Bachelorhood of Emperor Basil II / Conclusion

‘… this book is highly stimulating and delightful. Masterson has a gift for covering much ground economically and with sophistication and verve. His readings are lucid and mostly compelling, despite the complexity of ideas’ - Speculum 98/4 (October 2023).‘Masterson’s book is a meaningful contribution to those seeking to undertake a queer approach to Byzantine sources’ - Journal of the History of Sexuality, Volume 32, Number 3, September 2023.

Mark Masterson is Associate Professor of Classics at Te Herenga Waka/Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood (2014), as well as a number of articles and book chapters on sexuality and masculinity. He is also one of editors of the collection, Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World (2015).

• Introduction / Chapter One: Eroticism and Desire in Epistolography / Chapter Two: Histories of Masculine Beauty and Desire: The Case of Emperor Basil I / Chapter Three: Framing the Brotherhoods of Emperor Basil I / Appendix of Prayers / Chapter Four: Revisiting the Bachelorhood of Emperor Basil II / Conclusion

‘… this book is highly stimulating and delightful. Masterson has a gift for covering much ground economically and with sophistication and verve. His readings are lucid and mostly compelling, despite the complexity of ideas’ - Speculum 98/4 (October 2023).‘Masterson’s book is a meaningful contribution to those seeking to undertake a queer approach to Byzantine sources’ - Journal of the History of Sexuality, Volume 32, Number 3, September 2023.