Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 233 Seiten)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9783110747942
,
9783110748062
Series Statement:
Trends in classics - supplementary volumes 122
Content:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Texts and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Ophthalmology of Lovesickness: Poetry, Philosophy, Medicine -- Performance and Pragmatics of Erotic Poetry in Archaic and Classical Greece: A Pathology of Sexualities? -- Pathological Erôs in the Euripidean Fragments: Aeolus, Cretans, and Protesilaus -- Pathological Heterosexuality and Other Male Anxieties -- Xenophon and the Pathology of Erôs -- The Pathology of Love in Ovid’s Metamorphoses -- In Sickness or in Health? Love, Pathology, and Marriage in the Letters of Acontius and Cydippe (Ovid’s Heroides 20–1) -- Pathological Love in the ‘Open’ or ‘Fringe’ Novels -- Appendix: An Anthology of the Pathologies of Love -- List of Contributors -- Bibliography
Content:
Do you believe in love at first sight? The Greeks and the Romans certainly did. But far from enjoying this romantic moment carefree, they saw it as a cruel experience and an infection. Then what are the symptoms of falling in love? Are there any remedies? Any form of immunity? This book explores the conception of love (erôs) as a physical, emotional, and mental disease, a social-ethical disorder, and a literary unorthodoxy in Greek and Latin literature. Through illustrative case studies, the contributors to this volume examine two distinct, yet historically and poetically interrelated traditions of ‘pathological love’: lovesickness as/similar to disease and deviant sexuality described in nosologic terms. The chapters represent a wide range of genres (lyric poetry, philosophy, oratory, comedy, tragedy, elegy, satire, novel, and of course medical literature) and a fascinating synthesis of methodologies and approaches, including textual criticism, comparative philology, narratology, performance theory, and social history. The book closes with an anthology of Greek and Latin passages on pathological erôs. While primarily aimed at an academic readership, the book is accessible to anyone interested in Classics and/or the theme of love
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110747881
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe International Conference The Pathology of Love in Greek and Roman Art and Literature (2018 : Oxford) Pathologies of love in classical literature Berlin : De Gruyter, 2021 ISBN 9783110747881
Additional Edition:
ISBN 311074788X
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Griechisch
;
Latein
;
Literatur
;
Liebe
;
Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783110747942
