Erôs and the Polis: love in context
Ed Sanders (Editor)
Series: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplements
Published in association with: Institute of Classical Studies
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.
Ed Sanders ‘Erôs and the polis’: an introduction
James Davidson Politics, poetics, and erôs in archaic poetry
Nick Fisher Erotic charis: what sorts of reciprocity?
Dimitra Kokkini The rejection of erotic passion by Euripides’ Hippolytos
Stavroula Kiritsi Erôs in Menander: three studies in male character
PDF: 9781905670789
Paperback: 9781905670444 / 244mm x 170mm
Ed Sanders (Editor)
Subject: Ancient Greece, Classical Studies
BISAC codes: LIT004190
Thema codes: DSC, NHC
Keywords: ancient Greece, gender, politics, sexuality, social convention, socio-political
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