meant when he called his work "trivialising", he was not abashed, since he attached importance to phenomena Scruton ignores. Halperin called the work "the first modern scholarly study" of its subject and "a triumph of empirical research", and identified it as one of the key intellectual influences on his One Hundred Years of Homosexuality (1990). Halperin argued that the publication of the work in 1978, together with the appearance of the English translation of Foucault's The History of Sexuality, marked the beginning of a new era in the study of the history of sexuality. The critic Camille Paglia disputed Halperin's characterization of Greek Homosexuality, observing that while it was a valuable book on Greek pederasty, it was not an "intellectual" work and aside from Dover's discussion of intercrural copulation contained relatively little that was surprising. Cantarella has criticized some of Dover's conclusions, concluding that there was no restriction on anal intercourse in pederastic relationships, a claim rejected by the classicist Bruce Thornton. Critical discussions of Dover's work include those by David Cohen in Law, Sexuality and Society (1991) and Thornton in Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality (1997). The philosopher Martha Nussbaum described Greek Homosexuality as the "best historical account of Greek sexual customs". Greek Homosexuality was republished in a third edition, containing a foreword by Mark Masterson and James Robson discussing the book and its influence, in 2016. References Bibliography 1978 non-fiction books 1970s LGBT literature Ancient LGBT history Books about LGBT history Books by Kenneth Dover English-language books Gay history Harvard University Press books LGBT history in Greece Pederasty in ancient Greece LGBT literature in the United States