Title: Love among the ruins : the erotics of democracy in classical Athens /
Authors: Wohl, Victoria, 1966-
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Democracy Greece Athens Psychological aspects History.; Sex Political aspects Greece Athens History.; Sex role Political aspects Greece Athens History.
Contents: Introduction: Ideological desire. The erotics of democracy ; "Just love": the origin of democratic eros ; Normativity and its discontents ; Symptomatic reading -- Pericles' lovers. The ideal ; The lover ; The love ; The beloved -- Pornos of the people. Parodic Pericles ; Politics of the open mouth ; Cleon's turn ; King Demos -- Perverse desire: the eros of Alcibiades. Theories of perversion ; Paranomia ; Dēmerastia ; Socrates' boyfriend -- The erotics of empire. Hard on empire ; Duserōs tōn apontōn ; Working through the symptom -- What does the tyrant want? Hipparchus's Herms ; Desire of the other ; Tyrannical ecstasy ; All or nothing ; The tyrant's lack and democratic fantasy -- Conclusion.