The Greeks and Greek Love by James Davidsondoi:10.1080/00918369.2010.508336Richard J. HoffmanPubMedJournal of Homosexuality
Eros was the mischievous ancient Greek god of love, a minion and constant companion of the goddess Aphrodite. He lit the flame of love in the hearts of the gods and men, armed with either a bow and arrows or a flaming torch. Eros was depicted as either a
APHRODI′TE (Aphroditê), one of the great Olympian divinities, was, according to the popular and poetical notions of the Greeks, the goddess of love and beauty. Some traditions stated that she had sprung from the foam (aphros) of the sea, which had gathered around the mutilated parts of...
Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in Nineteenth-Century England. Berkeley: University of California Press 1985 . The Trial of Oscar Wilde: From the ... Gregory,Mackie - 《University of Toronto Quarterly》 被引量: 0发表: 2004年 "Love is better than wisdom and more precious than riches": The...
Greek Ideals and the Love of Wisdom essaysPhilosophy has always been central to the Greek culture. "The Love of Wisdom", as translated from Greek, the art and the science of philosophy was born in ancient Greece and since then has found its way to Wester
Aphrodite was the goddess of love. She was celebrated poetically in ancient Greece — the best-known work is the Ode to Aphrodite, written by a female poet, Sappho. Unlike theRoman variant, Venus, Aphrodite is a goddess name, which rarely descends to mortal use. It’s perhaps a bit much...
The idea that the Earth is alive may be as old as humankind. The ancient Greeks gave her the powerful name Gaia and looked on her as a goddess. — James E. Lovelock In 'The Earth as a Living Organism', Essay collected in E. O. Wilson and F. M. Peter (eds.), Biodiversity (...
Alexander Aetolus, of Pleuron in Aetolia, Greek poet and man of letters, the only representative of Aetolian poetry, flourished about 280 BC.When living in Alexandria he was commissioned by Ptolemy Philadelphus to arrange the tragedies and satyric dramas in the library; some ten years later ...
The women of the island, accordingly, took Ariadne into their care, and tried to comfort her in the discouragement caused by her loneliness, brought her forged letters purporting to have been written to her by Theseus, ministered to her aid during the pangs of travail, and gave her burial ...
Plato, Letters 335b (trans. Bury) : "Satiating himself with the slavish and graceless pleasure which is miscalled by the name Aphrodisios (of the Goddess of Love)." [N.B. In Greek aphrodisios means sexual pleasures, literally "belonging to the goddess of love."]...