Eros

The Myth Of Ancient Greek Sexuality

Bruce S Thornton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-31551-1 (ISBN)

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This book offers a comprehensive account of ancient Greek sexuality free of currently fashionable theoretical jargon and pretensions. It is about what the literary remains from 700–100 b.c. say about sex, for it is those remains that most influenced subsequent Western culture.

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

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-367-31551-3 / 0367315513
ISBN-13	978-0-367-31551-1 / 9780367315511
Zustand	Neuware