Erôs in ancient Greece /

This edited volume brings together eighteen articles which examine the role of erôs as an emotion in ancient Greek culture. Arising out of a conference held at University College London in 2009, the volume ranges from Archaic epic and lyric poetry, through tragedy and comedy, to philosophical and te...

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Other Authors:	Sanders, Ed, 1973- (Editor), Thumiger, Chiara (Editor), Carey, Christopher (Classicist) (Editor), Lowe, N. J. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:	Greek literature > History and criticism. Love in literature. Emotions in literature. Erōs (The Greek word) Littérature grecque > Histoire et critique. Amour dans la littérature. Eros (Le mot grec) Emotions in literature Greek literature Love in literature Griechisch Literatur Eros Erotik Erotik > Motiv Liebe > Motiv Griechenland > Altertum Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction / Ed Sanders, 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 Thumiger
The imagery of Erôs in Plato's Phaedrus / Douglas Cairns
The language(s) of love in Aristophanes / James Robson
World of Erôs in Ibycus fragment 286 (PMGF) / Vanessa Cazzato
Lamp and erotic epigrams : how an object sheds light on the lover's emotions / Maria Kanellou
Male bodies, male gazes : exploring Erôs in the twelfth book of the Greek Anthology / Andreas Fountoulakis.