| Other author/creator | Sanders, Ed, 1973- |
| Other author/creator | Thumiger, Chiara. |
| Other author/creator | Carey, Christopher (Classicist) |
| Other author/creator | Lowe, N. J. |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 technical treatises and more, and includes contributions from a variety of international scholars well published in the field of ancient Greek emotions. Taking into account all important thinking about the nature of erôs from the eighth century BCE to the third century CE, and covering a very broad range of sources and theoretical approaches, both in the chronological and the generic sense, it considers the phenomenology, psychology, and physiology of erôs; its associated language, metaphors, and imagery; the overlap of erôs with other emotions (jealousy, madness, philia, pothos); its role in political society; and the relationship between the human emotion and Eros the god. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-341) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013409977 |
| ISBN | 9780199605507 |
| ISBN | 0199605505 |
