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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. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical paradigm of dominance/submission, 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.
Calame's treatment of archaic and classical Greek institutions reveals Eros at work in initiation rites and celebrations, educational practices, the Dionysiac theater of tragedy and comedy, and in real and imagined spatial settings. For men, Eros functioned particularly in the symposium and the gymnasium, places where men and boys interacted and where future citizens were educated. The household was the setting where girls, brides, and adult wives learned their erotic roles--as such it provides the context for understanding female rites of passage and the problematics of sexuality in conjugal relations. Through analyses of both Greek language and practices
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PART ONE: THE TOPICS OF EROS
PART ONE: THE TOPICS OF EROS
CHAPTER I The Eros of the Melic Poets
CHAPTER I The Eros of the Melic Poets
1. The Actions of Bittersweet Eros
1. The Actions of Bittersweet Eros
2. Physiologies of Erotic Desire
2. Physiologies of Erotic Desire
5. Metaphors for the Assuaging of Desire
5. Metaphors for the Assuaging of Desire
6. The Erotic Charms of Poetry
6. The Erotic Charms of Poetry
CHAPTER II The Eros of Epic Poetry
CHAPTER II The Eros of Epic Poetry
PART TWO: THE SYMBOLIC PRACTICES OF EROS
PART TWO: THE SYMBOLIC PRACTICES OF EROS
CHAPTER III The Pragmatic Effects of Love Poetry
CHAPTER III The Pragmatic Effects of Love Poetry
1. The Erotic Functions of Melic Poetry
1. The Erotic Functions of Melic Poetry
2. The Loves of Alexandrian Writers
2. The Loves of Alexandrian Writers
CHAPTER IV The Pragmatics of Erotic Iconography
CHAPTER IV The Pragmatics of Erotic Iconography
1. Figurative Representations of Love
1. Figurative Representations of Love
2. The Functions of Erotic Images
2. The Functions of Erotic Images
PART THREE: EROS IN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
PART THREE: EROS IN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
CHAPTER V Eros in the Masculine: The polis
CHAPTER V Eros in the Masculine: The polis
1. The Propaedeutic Practices of the Symposium
1. The Propaedeutic Practices of the Symposium
2. Erotic Practices of the Palaestra
2. Erotic Practices of the Palaestra
CHAPTER VI Eros in the Feminine: The Oikos
CHAPTER VI Eros in the Feminine: The Oikos
1. An Intermediate Status: The Hetaira at the Banquet
1. An Intermediate Status: The Hetaira at the Banquet
2. The Transition to Maturity: The Young Wife
2. The Transition to Maturity: The Young Wife
CHAPTER VII Dionysiac Challenges to Love
CHAPTER VII Dionysiac Challenges to Love
1. The Institution of Comedy
1. The Institution of Comedy
2. The Institution of Tragedy
2. The Institution of Tragedy
PART FOUR: THE SPACES OF EROS
PART FOUR: THE SPACES OF EROS
CHAPTER VIII The Meadows and Gardens of Legend
CHAPTER VIII The Meadows and Gardens of Legend
2. The Orchards and Gardens of Aphrodite
2. The Orchards and Gardens of Aphrodite
3. Flowers, Fruits, and Cereals
3. Flowers, Fruits, and Cereals
CHAPTER IX The Meadows and Gardens of the Poets
CHAPTER IX The Meadows and Gardens of the Poets
1. The Metaphorical Spaces of Love
1. The Metaphorical Spaces of Love
2. The Ideal Domains of the Gods
2. The Ideal Domains of the Gods
PART FIVE: THE METAPHYSICS OF EROS
PART FIVE: THE METAPHYSICS OF EROS
CHAPTER X Eros as Demiurge and Philosopher
CHAPTER X Eros as Demiurge and Philosopher
1. Eros as a Cosmogonic Principle
1. Eros as a Cosmogonic Principle
2. Erotic Forms of the Initiation to Beauty
2. Erotic Forms of the Initiation to Beauty
3. Love as a Metaphysician
3. Love as a Metaphysician
1. Eros in the Orphic Theogonies
1. Eros in the Orphic Theogonies
2. The Mystic Aspects of Eros
2. The Mystic Aspects of Eros
ELEGIAC CODA Eros the Educator
ELEGIAC CODA Eros the Educator
The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece
：The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece
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