Love among the Ruins : : The Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens / / Victoria Wohl.
Classical Athenian literature often speaks of democratic politics in sexual terms. Citizens are urged to become lovers of the polis, and politicians claim to be lovers of the people. Victoria Wohl argues that this was no dead metaphor. Exploring the intersection between eros and politics in democrat...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2003 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- Introduction: Ideological Desire
- Chapter I. PERICLES' LOVERS
- Chapter II. PORNOS OF THE PEOPLE
- Chapter III. PERVERSE DESIRE: THE EROS OF ALCIBIADES
- Chapter IV. THE EROTICS OF EMPIRE
- Chapter V. WHAT DOES THE TYRANT WANT?
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- General Index