Title: The poetics of eros in Ancient Greece
Description: The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Claude Calame uses an anthropological and linguistic approach to re-create indigenous categories of erotic love. He maintains that Eros, the joyful companion of Aphrodite, was a divine figure around which poets constructed a physiology of desire that functioned in specific ways within a network of social relations.

Calame begins by showing how poetry and iconography gave a rich variety of expression to the concept of Eros, then delivers a history of the deity's roles within social and political institutions, and concludes with a discussion of an Eros-centered metaphysics.
Subjects: Greek Erotic poetry, Sex in literature, Literature and society, Poetics, History and criticism, History, Erotic poetry, history and criticism, Greek poetry, history and criticism, Poésie érotique grecque, Histoire et critique, Littérature et société, Sexualité dans la littérature, Eros (god), Letterkunde, Erotiek, Griekse oudheid, Eros (Gott), Literature
Places: Greece
Time periods: To 1500