Erôs in ancient Greece

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This volume brings together 18 articles which examine eros as an emotion in ancient Greek culture. Taking into account all important thinking about the nature of eros from the 8th century BCE to the 3rd century CE, it covers a very broad range of sources and theoretical approaches, both in the chronological and the generic sense.

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Full title :Erôs in ancient Greece / edited by Ed Sanders [and others].

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Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

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Description:1 online resource : : illustrations

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ISBN:9780191745928, 0191745928, 9780199605507, 0199605505
oclc:ocn847731651
LC Classification:PA3015.L67
Dewey Decimal:880.93543

Introduction / Ed Sanders and Chiara Thumiger -- part 1. Phenomenology and psychology of Erôs / Chiara Thumiger -- Between appetite and emotion, or why can't animals have Erôs? / David Konstan -- Mad Erôs and eroticized madness in tragedy / Chiara Thumiger -- Sexual jealousy and Erôs in Euripides' Medea / Ed Sanders -- Love's battlefield: rethinking Sappho fragment 31 / Armand D'Angour -- Monstrous love? Erotic reciprocity in Aelian's De natura animalium / Steven D. Smith -- part 2. Defining Erôs: philosophy and science / Chiara Thumiger -- Challenging Platonic Erôs: the role of Thumos and Philotimia in love / Olivier Renaut -- Galen, Plato, and the physiology of Erôs / Ralph M. Rosen -- Sex and the city: Plato, Aristotle, and Zeno of Kition on Erôs and Philia / Eleni Leontsini -- Stoic Erôs-is there such a thing? / Christopher Gill -- part 3. Divine Eros and human Erôs / Chiara Thumiger -- Eros in Hesiod / Glenn W. Most -- From the gymnasium to the wedding: eros in Athenian art and cult / Emma Stafford -- Love theory and political practice in Plutarch: the Amatorius and the Lives of Coriolanus and Alcibiades / Michele A. Lucchesi -- part 4. Imagery and language of Erôs / Chiara T…

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Amour dans la littérature Criticism, interpretation, etc Emotions in literature Eros Eros (Le mot grec) Erōs (The Greek word) erotik Greek literature Greek literature -- History and critici… Griechenland Griechisch Liebe Literatur Littérature grecque -- Histoire et crit… Love in literature