Eros and the Polis: love in context
Eros and the Polis: love in context
Arising out of a conference on ‘Eros in Ancient Greece’, the articles in this volume share a historicizing approach to the conventions and expectations of eros 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 eros and politics; sexual practices that fell outside societal norms (aristocratic homosexuality, chastity); the roles of sophrosyne (self-control) and akrasia (incontinence) in erotic relationships; and the connection between eros and other socially important emotions such as charis, philia, and storge.
The exploration of such issues from a variety of standpoints, and through a range of texts, allows us to place eros as an emotion in its socio-political context.
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