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Adolescent Suicide Attempts
Adonis Gardens
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek Sexuality
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Aphrodite Ourania
Aphrodite's Power
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Aphrodite’s Power
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beauty
Bestial Passions
Brother Apsyrtus
Bruce S. Thornton
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Destructive Excess
Energy Source
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Erotic Beauty
gender norms antiquity
greece
greek
Greek myth interpretation
Hellenistic Poet
homoeroticism analysis
Homosexual Eros
literature
Material Natural World
Nature's Beauty
Nature’s Beauty
origins of Western sexual attitudes
Passive Homosexual
Passive Homosexuality
Pedagogical Pederasty
Pederastic Relationship
Physical Gratification
power
Radical Sophists
rational
Rational Virtue
sexual
Sexual Beauty
sexual ethics history
Sexual Pessimism
virtue
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367315511
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Aug 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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
Bruce S. Thornton is professor of classics and chairman of the Department of Foreign Languages at California State University at Fresno.
