Pathologies of Love in Classical Literature

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Pathologies of Love in Classical Literature

Edited by: Dimitrios Kanellakis

Volume 122 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747942

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Dimitrios Kanellakis, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Reviews

"This volume appears to have been, both literally and metaphorically, a ‘labour of love’. [...] This is not a hastily thrown together collection of contributions: this is a careful, integrated and thought-provoking volume with common threads of interest and shared goals.　[...] For the scholar, this book is fascinating and delightful. In keeping with the theme of the desirous gaze, it is a suitably handsome book to own, look at, admire, consult and read closely. It features several alluring colour illustrations from classical and modern art; immaculate quotations from Greek and Latin presented alongside English translations; a helpful anthology of ancient sources; an extensive bibliography; and an excellent index locorum and general index. What more could the scholar of erôs ask for?" Sonia Pertsinidis in: Classical Review 2022.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Texts and Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction Dimitrios Kanellakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Ophthalmology of Lovesickness: Poetry, Philosophy, Medicine Chiara Thumiger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Performance and Pragmatics of Erotic Poetry in Archaic and Classical Greece: A Pathology of Sexualities? Claude Calame Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Pathological Erôs in the Euripidean Fragments: Aeolus, Cretans, and Protesilaus Anastasia-Stavroula Valtadorou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Pathological Heterosexuality and Other Male Anxieties Thomas K. Hubbard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Xenophon and the Pathology of Erôs Ed Sanders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
The Pathology of Love in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Andreas N. Michalopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
In Sickness or in Health? Love, Pathology, and Marriage in the Letters of Acontius and Cydippe (Ovid’s Heroides 20–1) Thea S. Thorsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Pathological Love in the ‘Open’ or ‘Fringe’ Novels Ioannis M. Konstantakos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Appendix: An Anthology of the Pathologies of Love Dimitrios Kanellakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of Classics, Comparative Lit., Theory of Lit., Gender Studies, Textual Criticism, History of Medicine
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 233
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 5
Keywords: love; eros; emotions; pathology

eBook

Published: August 2, 2021
ISBN: 9783110747942

Hardcover

Published: August 2, 2021
ISBN: 9783110747881

Paperback

Published: May 8, 2023
ISBN: 9783111276618