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Author : Ed Sanders
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Book Synopsis Erôs and the Polis: Love in Context by : Ed Sanders
Download or read book Erôs and the Polis: Love in Context written by Ed Sanders. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ed Sanders
Release : 2013
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Erôs and the Polis by : Ed Sanders
Download or read book Erôs and the Polis written by Ed Sanders. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arising out of a conference on 'Er s in Ancient Greece', the articles in this volume share a historicizing approach to the conventions and expectations of er s in the context of the polis, in the Archaic and Classical
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Release : 2013
Genre : Emotions in literature
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Download or read book Erôs and the Polis written by . This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Arising out of a conference on 'Erôs in Ancient Greece', the articles in this volume share a historicizing approach to the conventions and expectations of erôs in the context of the polis, in the Archaic and Classical periods of ancient Greece. The articles focus on (post-Homeric) Archaic and Classical poetic genres - namely lyric poetry, tragedy, and comedy - and some philosophical texts by Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle. They pursue a variety of issues, including: the connection between homosexual erôs and politics; sexual practices that fell outside societal norms (aristocratic homosexuality, chastity); the roles of sôphrosynê (self-control) and akrasia (incontinence) in erotic relationships; and the connection between erôs and other socially important emotions such as charis, philia, and storgê. The exploration of such issues from a variety of standpoints, and through a range of texts, allows us to place erôs as an emotion in its socio-political context."--Book cover.
Author : Paul W. Ludwig
Release : 2002-10-21
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Eros and Polis by : Paul W. Ludwig
Download or read book Eros and Polis written by Paul W. Ludwig. This book was released on 2002-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eros and Polis examines how and why Greek theorists treated political passions as erotic. Because of the tiny size of ancient Greek cities, contemporary theory and ideology could conceive of entire communities based on desire. A recurrent aspiration was to transform the polity into one great household that would bind the citizens together through ties of mutual affection. In this study, Paul Ludwig evaluates sexuality, love and civic friendship as sources of political attachment and as bonds of political association. Studying the ancient view of eros recovers a way of looking at political phenomena that provides a bridge, missing in modern thought, between the private and public spheres, between erotic love and civic commitment. Ludwig's study thus has important implications for the theoretical foundations of community.
Author : Katherine Wasdin
Release : 2018-05-25
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Eros at Dusk by : Katherine Wasdin
Download or read book Eros at Dusk written by Katherine Wasdin. This book was released on 2018-05-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the relationship between wedding poetry and love poetry in the classical world. By treating both Greek and Latin texts, it offers an innovative and wide-ranging discussion of the poetic representation of social occasions. The discourses associated with weddings and love affairs both foreground ideas of persuasion and praise even though they differ dramatically in their participants and their outcomes. Furthermore, these texts make it clear that the brief, idealized, and eroticized moment of the wedding stands in contrast to the long-lasting and harmonious agreement of the marriage. At times, these genres share traditional forms of erotic persuasion, but at other points, one genre purposefully alludes to the other to make a bride seem like a paramour or a paramour like a bride. Explicit divergences remind the audience of the different trajectories of the wedding, which will hopefully transition into a stable marriage, and the love affair, which is unlikely to endure with mutual affection. Important themes include the threshold; the evening star; plant and animal metaphors; heroic comparisons; reciprocity and the blessings of the gods; and sexual violence and persuasion. The consistency and durability of this intergeneric relationship demonstrates deep-seated conceptions of legitimate and illegitimate sexual relationships. By examining these two types of poetry in tandem, Eros at Dusk adds fresh insight into the social concerns and generic composition of these occasional poems.
