Erôs and the Polis: Love in Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Erôs and the Polis: Love in Context write by Ed Sanders. This book was released on . Erôs and the Polis: Love in Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Erôs and the Polis
Erôs and the Polis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Erôs and the Polis write by Ed Sanders. This book was released on 2013. Erôs and the Polis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arising out of a conference on 'Er s in Ancient Greece', the articles in this volume share a historicizing approach to the conventions and expectations of er s in the context of the polis, in the Archaic and Classical
Erôs and the Polis
Erôs and the Polis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Erôs and the Polis write by . This book was released on 2013. Erôs and the Polis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Arising out of a conference on 'Erôs in Ancient Greece', the articles in this volume share a historicizing approach to the conventions and expectations of erôs in the context of the polis, in the Archaic and Classical periods of ancient Greece. The articles focus on (post-Homeric) Archaic and Classical poetic genres - namely lyric poetry, tragedy, and comedy - and some philosophical texts by Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle. They pursue a variety of issues, including: the connection between homosexual erôs and politics; sexual practices that fell outside societal norms (aristocratic homosexuality, chastity); the roles of sôphrosynê (self-control) and akrasia (incontinence) in erotic relationships; and the connection between erôs and other socially important emotions such as charis, philia, and storgê. The exploration of such issues from a variety of standpoints, and through a range of texts, allows us to place erôs as an emotion in its socio-political context."--Book cover.
Eros and Polis
Eros and Polis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eros and Polis write by Paul W. Ludwig. This book was released on 2002-10-21. Eros and Polis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eros and Polis examines how and why Greek theorists treated political passions as erotic. Because of the tiny size of ancient Greek cities, contemporary theory and ideology could conceive of entire communities based on desire. A recurrent aspiration was to transform the polity into one great household that would bind the citizens together through ties of mutual affection. In this study, Paul Ludwig evaluates sexuality, love and civic friendship as sources of political attachment and as bonds of political association. Studying the ancient view of eros recovers a way of looking at political phenomena that provides a bridge, missing in modern thought, between the private and public spheres, between erotic love and civic commitment. Ludwig's study thus has important implications for the theoretical foundations of community.
