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Two-point-five millennia ago this month, lacking VCR or Hollywood holiday blockbuster, a grecian youth might have huddled around a fire with the menfolk keeping warm in the Attic chill to hear stories of the gods-- the racy ones. Thanks to the new CD/book combo Lovers' Legends Unbound (Haiduk Press, $25), this scene can be reproduced around the fireplace/radiator in your living room (Greek youth sold separately). This new recording and book is based on Andrew Callimach's Lover's Legends, a reconstruction of the Greek myths relating to male love published last year. Piecing together the Greek myths from the varied versions in what was essentially an oral tradition isn't easy, but Callimach succeeded in rendering the spirit of the originals in prose fresh and unfusty. Now with Lovers' Legends Unbound, some of these classic tales are brought to voice. "I am impressed," declares sex historian Vern L. Bullough. "It is a work of great devotion, and scholarly as well." Images of homoerotic Greek art collected for the accompanying book are sure to delight the eye as well. The readings, by Timothy Carter, have a PBSy, Masterpiece-Theaterish basso profundity. The accompanying solo flute (original compositions by Steve Gorn) strike apt notes-- flute-playing to the Greeks having seamy connotations kin to those Ravel's Bolero enjoys today. It's a perfect musical accompaniment to the proto-Hollywoody tales of obsession, kidnap, dismemberment, murder, cannibal- ism, and other manifestations of divine, outta-control homosexuality-- all the better to highlight for impressionable Greek minds the ideal of a regulated and reasoned one. Support gay history and make your Christmas Queersmas, your Hanukah Homokah, your Kwanzaa Queenzaa. Check your local gay stockist, or browse to www.haidukpress.com.