The poetics of eros in Ancient Greece
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Publication
1999 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey
Language
Ekajuk
Word Count
53,250 words, Guess
Page Count
213 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL375268M
- ISBN-100691043418
- OCLC Control Number39713881
- OCLC Control Numberpoeticsoferosina0000cala
- Library of Congress Control Number98037129
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- LibraryThing547925
- Goodreads779586
Classifications
- DDC881/.01093538
- LCCPA3111 .C35 1999
Description
The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Claude Calame uses an anthropological and linguistic approach to re-create indigenous categories of erotic love. He maintains that Eros, the joyful companion of Aphrodite, was a divine figure around which poets constructed a physiology of desire that functioned in specific ways within a network of social relations. Calame begins by showing how poetry and iconography gave a rich variety of expression to the concept of Eros, then delivers a history of the deity's roles within social and political institutions, and concludes with a discussion of an Eros-centered metaphysics.
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