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EROS The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality
by Thornton, Bruce S
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0813332257
- ISBN 13
- 9780813332253
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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 power of an indiscriminate appetite that threatens the stability of culture itself. In Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality, Bruce Thornton offers a uniquely sweeping and comprehensive account of ancient sexuality free of currently fashionable theoretical jargon and pretentions. In its conclusions the book challenges the distortions of much recent scholarship on Greek sexuality. And throughout it links the wary attitudes of the Greeks to our present-day concerns about love, sex, and family. What we see, finally, are the origins of some of our own views as well as a vision of sexuality that is perhaps more honest and mature than our own dangerous illusions.; 304 pages .
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- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37085
- Title
- EROS The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality
- Author
- Thornton, Bruce S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0813332257
- ISBN 13
- 9780813332253
- Publisher
- Westview Press
- Place of Publication
- Boulder, Colorado, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- 0813332257, Myth And Mythology, Social & Cultural, Sexuality, Classical Greek & Roman
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