Research Catalog

Title

The poetics of eros in Ancient Greece / Claude Calame ; translated by Janet Lloyd.

Author

Calame, Claude

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors

Lloyd, Janet

Description

xxvi, 213 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• 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. Claude Calame uses an anthropological and linguistic approach to re-create indigenous categories of erotic love. He maintains that Eros, the joyful companion of Aphrodite, was a divine figure around which poets constructed a physiology of desire that functioned in specific ways within a network of social relations.
• Calame begins by showing how poetry and iconography gave a rich variety of expression to the concept of Eros, then delivers a history of the deity's roles within social and political institutions, and concludes with a discussion of an Eros-centered metaphysics.

Uniform Title

• Greci e l'eros. English
• Project Muse UPCC books.

Alternative Title

Greci e l'eros.

Subject

• Eros, Gott > Griechenland <Altertum>
• To 1500
• Erotic poetry, Greek > History and criticism
• Literature and society > Greece
• Sex in literature
• Poetics > History > To 1500
• Literature > history

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Note

• Translation of: I Greci e l'Eros : simboli, pratiche e luoghi (Roma-Bari : Laterza, 1992).
• 'Note on translations': p. [xix].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-205) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Tragic Prelude: The Yoke of Eros -- The Topics of Eros -- The Eros of the Melic Poets -- The Eros of Epic Poetry -- The Symbolic Practices of Eros -- The Pragmatic Effects of Love Poetry -- The Pragmatics of Erotic Iconography -- Eros in Social Institutions -- Eros in the Masculine: The polis -- Eros in the Feminine: The Oikos -- Dionysiac Challenges to Love -- The Spaces of Eros -- The Meadows and Gardens of Legend -- The Meadows and Gardens of the Poets -- The Metaphysics of Eros -- Eros as Demiurge and Philosopher -- Mystic Eros -- Elegiac Coda: Eros the Educator.

ISBN

0691043418 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98037129^

OCLC

39713881

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library