Eros Unveiled: Plato and the God of Love

by Catherine Osborne

Book Overview

This unique book challenges the traditional distinction between eros, the love found in Greek thought, and agape, the love characteristic of Christianity. Focusing on a number of classic texts, including Plato's Symposium and Lysis, Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics, , and famous passages in Gregory of Nyssa, Origen, Dionysius the Areopagite, Plotinus, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas, the author shows that Plato's account of eros is not founded on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198267665
• ISBN13: 9780198267669
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"