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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Details

Additional Authors

Lloyd, Janet

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Greci e l'eros.

Subject

• Erotic poetry, Greek > History and criticism
• Literature and society > Greece
• Sex in literature
• Poetics > History > To 1500

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
• SCSB-11637962

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library