Record Nr.

UNISA996204512103316

Autore

Sanders

Titolo

Erôs in ancient Greece

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-19-174592-8

0-19-960550-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : ill

Disciplina

880.93543

Soggetti

Love in literature - History and criticism

Greek literature

Emotions in literature

Eråos (The Greek word)

Languages & Literatures

Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.