Setting Plato straight : translating ancient sexuality in the Renaissance / Todd W. Reeser.

Author/creator Reeser, Todd W., 1967- author.
Format Book
PublicationChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Copyright Date©2016
Descriptionxi, 390 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Preface: Strictly Platonic -- Introduction -- Solving the problem with Plato -- The antitheses of same-sex sexuality in Bruni -- Ficino and the theory of purging same-sex sexuality -- Ficino and the practice of purging same-sex sexuality -- Importing Ficino : gender balance in Champier -- Seducing Socrates : the Silenus in Erasmus and Rabelais -- The gates of Germania : space, place, and sexuality in Cornarius -- Fractured men : feminism and neoplatonism in mid-sixteenth-century France -- Orientations : female-female and male-male eros in dialogue -- Reading sexuality skeptically in Montaigne -- Conclusion: Bending Plato -- Appendix: Major translations of Plato's erotic dialogues.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 321-378) and index.
LCCN 2015019947
ISBN9780226307008 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN022630700X (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN(ebook)
Standard identifier# 40025629950

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PA4291 .R44 2016 ✔ Available Place Hold