Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece.

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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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Calame, Claude
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton University Press, 2013.
Subjects:	Erotic poetry, Greek > History and criticism. Literature and society > Greece. Poetics > History > To 1500. Sex in literature. Erotic poetry, Greek. Literature and society. Poetics. Greece. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
FOREWORD / Zeitlin, Froma I.
PREFACE
NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Tragic Prelude
Chapter I: THE EROS OF THE MELIC POETS
Chapter II: THE EROS OF EPIC POETRY
Chapter III: THE PRAGMATIC EFFECTS OF LOVE POETRY
Chapter IV: THE PRAGMATICS OF EROTIC ICONOGRAPHY
Chapter V: EROS IN THE MASCULINE: THE POLIS
Chapter VI: EROS IN THE FEMININE: THE OIKOS
Chapter VII: DIONYSIAC CHALLENGES TO LOVE
Chapter VIII: THE MEADOWS AND GARDENS OF LEGEND
Chapter IX: THE MEADOWS AND GARDENS OF THE POETS
Chapter X: EROS AS DEMIURGE AND PHILOSOPHER
Chapter XI: MYSTIC EROS
Elegiac Coda
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NAME INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX.

Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece.

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