The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece by Lloyd, Janet, Calame, Claude -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Preface Note on Translations List of Abbreviations Tragic Prelude The Yoke of Eros Part One: The Topics of Eros

Chapter I The Eros of the Melic Poets

1. The Actions of Bittersweet Eros 2. Physiologies of Erotic Desire 3. Strategies of Love 4. A Variety of Passions 5. Metaphors for the Assuaging of Desire 6. The Erotic Charms of Poetry

Chapter II The Eros of Epic Poetry

1. Scenes of Mutual Love 2. Scenes of Seduction 3. Beguiling Words

Part Two: The Symbolic Practices of Eros

Chapter III The Pragmatic Effects of Love Poetry

1. The Erotic Functions of Melic Poetry 2. The Loves of Alexandrian Writers

Chapter IV The Pragmatics of Erotic Iconography

1. Figurative Representations of Love 2. The Functions of Erotic Images

Part Three: Eros in Social Institutions

Chapter V Eros in the Masculine: The polis

1. The Propaedeutic Practices of the Symposium 2. Erotic Practices of the Palaestra

Chapter VI Eros in the Feminine: The Oikos

Chapter VII Dionysiac Challenges to Love

1. The Institution of Comedy 2. The Institution of Tragedy

Part Four: The Spaces of Eros

Chapter VIII The Meadows and Gardens of Legend

1. Eroticized Meadows 2. The Orchards and Gardens of Aphrodite 3. Flowers, Fruits, and Cereals

Chapter IX The Meadows and Gardens of the Poets

1. The Metaphorical Spaces of Love 2. The Ideal Domains of the Gods 3. Religious Gardens

Part Five: The Metaphysics of Eros

Chapter X Eros as Demiurge and Philosopher

1. Eros as a Cosmogonic Principle 2. Erotic Forms of the Initiation to Beauty 3. Love as a Metaphysician

Chapter XI Mystic Eros

1. Eros in the Orphic Theogonies 2. The Mystic Aspects of Eros

Elegiac Coda Eros the Educator Bibliography Name Index Subject Index