Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality

ISBN-13: 9780367315511 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019

Bruce S Thornton

Opis

Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality is a controversial book that lays bare the meanings Greeks gave to sex. Contrary to the romantic idealization of sex dominating our culture, the Greeks saw eros as a powerful force of nature, potentially dangerous, and in need of control by society: Eros the Destroyer, not Cupid the Insipid, fired the Greek

Spis treści

Introduction: "Custom the King of All" -- Part 1 The "Controlless Core" -- 1 The "Tyrant of Gods and Men" -- 2 The Golden Child of the Bloody Foam -- 3 Pandora's "Foul Tribe of Women" -- 4 Monsters of Appetite -- Part 2 The "Fancied Sway" -- 5 Taming the Beasts -- 6 Erotic Technology -- 7 Wives and the Order of the House -- 8 Eros the Pedagogue -- Conclusion: Dissing Eros and Aphrodite

O autorze

Bruce S. Thornton is professor of classics and chairman of the Department of Foreign Languages at California State University at Fresno.