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"Remember the Sweet Things isn't merely a love story. It is a manual for healthy living, told with searing honesty and profound tenderness, and poignancy that touches you on virtually every page." -Wayne Coffey,New York Times bestselling author of The Boys of Winter Ellen Greene'sRemember the Sweet Things is a heartfelt, deeply affecting memoir of love, devotion, and a very special marriage, reminding us about what truly matters in life. Fans of Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach will appreciate this warm and loving remembrance that author Susan Wiggs calls, "a beautiful meditation on love and life, and an affirmation of the power of gratitude….A true gift to the reader.".

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter one Introduction -- Chapter two Imag(in)ing a Women's World in Bronze Age Greece The Frescoes from Xeste 3 at Akrotiri, Thera -- Chapter three Aphrodite Garlanded: Erôs and Poetic Creativity in Sappho and Nossis -- Chapter four Subjects, Objects, and Erotic Symmetry in Sappho's Fragments -- Chapter five Excavating Women's Homoeroticism in Ancient Greece: The Evidence from Attic Vase Painting -- Chapter six Women in Relief: "Double Consciousness" in Classical Attic Tombstones -- Chapter seven Glimpses through a Window An Approach to Roman Female Homoeroticism through Art Historical and Literary Evidence -- Chapter eight Ovid's Iphis and Ianthe When Girls Won't Be Girls -- Chapter nine Lucian 's "Leaena and Clonarium" Voyeurism or a Challenge to Assumptions?* -- Chapter ten "Friendship and Physical Desire" The Discourse of Female Homoeroticism in Fifth-Century ce Egyp -- Works Cited -- Notes on Contributors -- Index