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Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality Hardcover - 1996
by Bruce S. Thornton
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LET'S START WITH a famous "love story" from ancient Greece, as told by Apollonius of Rhodes in his Voyage of the Argo (ca. 250 B.C.).
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- Title Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality
- Author Bruce S. Thornton
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Basic Books, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
- Date December 1996
- ISBN 9780813332253 / 0813332257
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.31 x 6.37 x 1.09 in (23.65 x 16.18 x 2.77 cm)
- Reading level 1620
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96036786
- Dewey Decimal Code 392.609
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Westview Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0813332257 . Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality is a controversial book that lays bare the meanings Greeks gave to sex. Contrary to the romantic idealization of sex dominating our culture, the Greeks saw eros as a powerful force of nature, potentially dangerous, and in need of control by society: Eros the Destroyer, not Cupid the Insipid, fired the Greek imagination. The destructiveness of eros can be seen in Greek imagery and metaphor, and in the Greeks' attitudes toward women and homosexuals. Images of love as fire, disease, storms, insanity, and violenceTop 40 song clichés for uslocate eros among the unpredictable and deadly forces of nature. The beautiful Aphrodite embodies the alluring danger of sex, while femmes fatales like Pandora and Helen represent the risky charms of female sexuality. And homosexuality typifies for the Greeks the frightening…
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