The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece

by Claude Calame

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. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical paradigm of dominance/submission, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691043418
• ISBN13: 9780691043418
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"