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Ancient Greek Love Magic
Author | : Christopher A. FARAONE,Christopher A Faraone |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674036703 |
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The ancient Greeks commonly resorted to magic spells to attract and keep lovers. Surveying and analyzing various texts and artifacts, the author reveals that gender is the crucial factor in understanding love spells.
The Greeks and Greek Love
Author | : James N. Davidson |
Publsiher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 833 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : 9780375505164 |
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For nearly two thousand years, historians have treated the subject of homosexuality in ancient Greece with apology, embarrassment, or outright denial. Now classics scholar James Davidson offers a brilliant, unblushing exploration of the passion that permeated Greek civilization. Using homosexuality as a lens, Davidson sheds new light on every aspect of Greek culture, from politics and religion to art and war. With stunning erudition and irresistible wit–and without moral judgment–Davidson has written the first major examination of homosexuality in ancient Greece since the dawn of the modern gay rights movement. What exactly did same-sex love mean in a culture that had no word or concept comparable to our term “homosexuality”? How sexual were these attachments? When Greeks spoke of love between men and boys, how young were the boys, how old were the men? Drawing on examples from philosophy, poetry, drama, history, and vase painting, Davidson provides fascinating answers to questions that have vexed scholars for generations. To begin, he defines the essential Greek words for romantic love–eros, pothos, philia–and explores the shades of emotion and passion embodied in each. Then, exploding the myth of Greek “boy love,” Davidson shows that Greek same-sex pairs were in fact often of the same generation, with boys under eighteen zealously separated from older boys and men. Davidson argues that the essence of Greek homosexuality was “besottedness”–falling head over heels and “making a great big song and dance about it,” though sex was certainly not excluded. With refreshing candor, humor, and an astonishing command of Greek culture, Davidson examines how this passion played out in the myths of Ganymede and Cephalus, in the lives of archetypal Greek heroes such as Achilles, Heracles, and Alexander, in the politics of Athens and the army of lovers that defended Thebes. He considers the sexual peculiarities of Sparta and Crete, the legend and truth surrounding Sappho, and the relationship between Greek athletics and sexuality. Writing with the energy, vitality, and irony that the subject deserves, Davidson has elucidated the ruling passion of classical antiquity. Ultimately The Greeks and Greek Love is about how desire–homosexual and heterosexual–is embodied in human civilization. At once scholarly and entertaining, this is a book that sheds as much light on our own world as on the world of Homer, Plato, and Alexander.
Greek Love
Author | : J. Z. Eglinton |
Publsiher | : Ganymede Books |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2001-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1589636376 |
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Looks at history of boy-love in Greece, Rome, Middle Ages, the Renaissance and on through to the present. Postscript by Dr. Albert Ellis.
The Four Loves
Author | : Clive Staples Lewis |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0151329168 |
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Analyzes the feelings and problems involved in different types of human love, including familial affection, friendship, passion, and charity.
The Greeks and Greek Love
Author | : James N. Davidson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : 0753822261 |
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Geek Love
Author | : Katherine Dunn |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2011-05-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780307794482 |
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National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities--with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.
The Song of Eros
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2009-03-10 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780809386840 |
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This collection of new translations of eighty poems provides a pleasant, thought-provoking reminder of love’s vagaries as captured through the wit, charm, and insight of the master poets of antiquity. All the emotions and experiences associated with love—rejection, infatuation, ecstasy, desperation, loneliness—are rendered accessible to contemporary readers through this lively, modern, yet faithful English translation of works that date from the seventh century B.C.to the sixth century A.D.Illustrations accompany the poetry of Plato, Sappho, Stratto, Meleagros, and others, capturing both the flavor of the age and the theme of the texts.
Greek Love Reconsidered
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Author | : Thomas K. Hubbard |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Homosexuality, Male |
ISBN | : 0774811900 |
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