To browse Academia. The might of Eros, be it the god, or simply the concept, over men and gods is prevalent in Greek literature, ever since Homer. Yet it is with Euripides, who introduced dynamically the love theme in drama Real-Encyclopaedie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft VI, s.
Eros is acclaimed as a great god and the greatest amongst daemons TrGF frag. This book is a revision of B. Plato's theory of eros has been of perennial interest to philosophers, but of the many monographs and articles on this subject few contain a rigorous analysis of eros itself. She argues that the participation in or experience of eros was considered an integral part of Greek male identity that no one could disregard without serious ramifications. His endless list of lovers includes not only Phaedra, his stepmother, who is desperately in love with him, but also her daughter Strophe and a Catholic priest, as well.
Nevertheless, a close reading of her work may well reveal that Kane, despite the displacement that her play evidently achieves, conveys a message which is well in accordance with the underlying essence of the ancient myth. 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 eros and politics; sexual practices that fell outside societal norms aristocratic homosexuality, chastity ; the roles of sophrosyne self-control and akrasia incontinence in erotic relationships; and the connection between eros and other socially important emotions such as charis, philia, and storge. The exploration of such issues from a variety of standpoints, and through a range of texts, allows us to place eros as an emotion in its socio-political context.
Pathologies of Love in Classical Literature ed. Kanellakis , Scholarship on love in the Classical period has so far largely been concerned with Plato and tragedy. Tragic love, by contrast, is almost exclusively heterosexual, usually within marriage, accompanied by psychoses, and frequently ends in violent death. Symposiasts react in words, deeds and thoughts; to erotic stimuli, nascent and long-lasting love; and to beloveds both present and absent.
