The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece / / Claude Calame.

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. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical paradigm of dominance/submission, Claude Calame uses an anthropological and linguistic approach to re-create ind...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©1999
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.) :; 1 line illus. 9 halftones 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • FOREWORD
  • PREFACE
  • NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • Tragic Prelude
  • PART ONE. THE TOPICS OF EROS
  • Chapter I: THE EROS OF THE MELIC POETS
  • Chapter II: THE EROS OF EPIC POETRY
  • PART TWO. THE SYMBOLIC PRACTICES OF EROS
  • Chapter III: THE PRAGMATIC EFFECTS OF LOVE POETRY
  • Chapter IV: THE PRAGMATICS OF EROTIC ICONOGRAPHY
  • PART THREE. EROS IN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
  • Chapter V: EROS IN THE MASCULINE: THE POLIS
  • Chapter VI: EROS IN THE FEMININE: THE OIKOS
  • Chapter VII: DIONYSIAC CHALLENGES TO LOVE
  • PART FOUR. THE SPACES OF EROS
  • Chapter VIII: THE MEADOWS AND GARDENS OF LEGEND
  • Chapter IX: THE MEADOWS AND GARDENS OF THE POETS
  • PART FIVE. THE METAPHYSICS OF EROS
  • Chapter X: EROS AS DEMIURGE AND PHILOSOPHER
  • Chapter XI: MYSTIC EROS
  • Elegiac Coda
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • NAME INDEX
  • SUBJECT INDEX