Pathologies of Love in Classical Literature /

Pathologies of Love in Classical Literature / / ed. by Dimitrios Kanellakis.

Do you believe in love at first sight? The Greeks and the Romans certainly did. But far from enjoying this romantic moment carefree, they saw it as a cruel experience and an infection. Then what are the symptoms of falling in love? Are there any remedies? Any form of immunity? This book explores the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Calame, Claude,
Hubbard, Thomas K.,
Kanellakis, Dimitrios,
Konstantakos, Ioannis M.,
Michalopoulos, Andreas N.,
Sanders, Ed,
Thorsen, Thea S.,
Thumiger, Chiara,
Valtadorou, Anastasia-Stavroula,
HerausgeberIn:
Kanellakis, Dimitrios,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 122
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 233 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Texts and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • The Ophthalmology of Lovesickness: Poetry, Philosophy, Medicine
  • Performance and Pragmatics of Erotic Poetry in Archaic and Classical Greece: A Pathology of Sexualities?
  • Pathological Erôs in the Euripidean Fragments: Aeolus, Cretans, and Protesilaus
  • Pathological Heterosexuality and Other Male Anxieties
  • Xenophon and the Pathology of Erôs
  • The Pathology of Love in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
  • In Sickness or in Health? Love, Pathology, and Marriage in the Letters of Acontius and Cydippe (Ovid’s Heroides 20–1)
  • Pathological Love in the ‘Open’ or ‘Fringe’ Novels
  • Appendix: An Anthology of the Pathologies of Love
  • List of Contributors
  • Bibliography

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