LEADER 04058nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910814689103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08765-7 010 $a9786612087653 010 $a1-4008-2529-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400825295 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756314 035 $a(EBL)445572 035 $a(OCoLC)367671787 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000194510 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11166632 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194510 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10232242 035 $a(PQKB)10615374 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36046 035 $a(DE-B1597)446356 035 $a(OCoLC)979905158 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400825295 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445572 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284027 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208765 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445572 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756314 100 $a20020521d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLove among the ruins $ethe erotics of democracy in classical Athens /$fVictoria Wohl 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (342 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-09522-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPREFACE -- $tIntroduction: Ideological Desire -- $tChapter I. PERICLES' LOVERS -- $tChapter II. PORNOS OF THE PEOPLE -- $tChapter III. PERVERSE DESIRE: THE EROS OF ALCIBIADES -- $tChapter IV. THE EROTICS OF EMPIRE -- $tChapter V. WHAT DOES THE TYRANT WANT? -- $tConclusion -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex Locorum -- $tGeneral Index 330 $aClassical Athenian literature often speaks of democratic politics in sexual terms. Citizens are urged to become lovers of the polis, and politicians claim to be lovers of the people. Victoria Wohl argues that this was no dead metaphor. Exploring the intersection between eros and politics in democratic Athens, Wohl traces the private desires aroused by public ideology and the political consequences of citizens' most intimate longings. Love among the Ruins analyzes the civic fantasies that lay beneath (but not necessarily parallel to) Athens's political ideology. It shows how desire can disrupt politics and provides a deeper--at times disturbing--insight into the democratic unconscious of ancient Athens. The Athenians imagined the perfect citizen as a noble and manly lover. But this icon conceals a multitude of other possible figures: sexy tyrants, potent pathics, and seductive perverts. Through critical re-readings of canonical texts, Wohl investigates these fantasies, which seem so antithetical to Athens's manifest ideals. She examines the interrelation of patriotism and narcissism, the trope of politics as prostitution, the elite suspicion of political pleasure, and the status of perversion within Athens's sexual and political norms. She also discusses the morbid drive that propelled Athenian imperialism, as well as democratic Athens's paradoxical fascination with the joys of tyranny. Drawing on contemporary critical theory in original ways, Wohl sketches the relationship between citizen psyche and political life to illuminate the complex, frequently contradictory passions that structure democracy, ancient and modern. 606 $aDemocracy$zGreece$zAthens$xPsychological aspects$xHistory 606 $aSex role$xPolitical aspects$zGreece$zAthens$xHistory 606 $aSex$xPolitical aspects$zGreece$zAthens$xHistory 615 0$aDemocracy$xPsychological aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aSex role$xPolitical aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aSex$xPolitical aspects$xHistory. 676 $a320.938/5 700 $aWohl$b Victoria$f1966-$0475028 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814689103321 996 $aLove among the ruins$91414192 997 $aUNINA