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 Fo

Surely the ancient Greeks would have been baffled to see what we consider their "mythology." Here, Claude Calame mounts a powerful critique of modern-day miscon

This volume aims at providing both students and scholars with a series of discussions of the long tradition of reading and writing the erotic, seen from a numbe

Zeitlin explores the diversity and complexity of these interactions through the most influential literary texts of the archaic and classical periods, from epic

This volume brings together 18 articles which examine eros as an emotion in ancient Greek culture. Taking into account all important thinking about the nature o