Ers in Ancient Greece

Helen Morales, The Times Literary Supplement There are many delights in this substantial volume.

<br>Ed Sanders is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research focuses on emotions in ancient Greece, especially in the literature of the Classical period. His forthcoming monograph, based on his PhD, is entitled Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens (OUP). <br>Chiara Thumiger is a Research Associate at the Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin. Her present research focuses on mental insanity and its ancient representations in the Hippocratic texts and other literary sources. She has also worked on Greek tragedy and on animals in ancient literature, and is the author of Hidden Paths: Self and Characterization in Greek tragedy: Euripides' Bacchae. <br>Christopher Carey is Professor of Greek at University College London. His research interests are very broad, including Pindar, drama, and above all oratory. He is the author of Democracy in Classical Athens as well as a large number of articles. He has also published a range of translations, commentaries, and edited volumes, in particular relating to the Attic oratorical corpus; these include the recent Oxford Classical Text Lysiae orationes cum fragmentis (Oxford, 2007), The speeches of Aeschines, Lysias: Selected Speeches, and Trials from Classical Athens. <br>Nick J. Lowe is Reader in Classical Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is both a Greek and Latin literary specialist, and is particularly interested in comedy, prose fiction, narrative, and the interface between literary theory and cognitive science. He is the author of TheClassical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative and Comedy.<br>

PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; 1. Introduction; PART 1: PHENOMENOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY OF EROS; 2. Between appetite and emotion, or Why can't animals have eros?; 3. Mad eros and eroticized madness in tragedy; 4. Sexual jealousy and eros in Euripides Medea; 5. Love's battlefield: Rethinking Sappho fragment 31; 6. Monstrous love? Erotic reciprocity in Aelian's De natura animalium; PART 2: DEFINING EROS: PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE; 7. Challenging Platonic eros: The role of thumos and philotimia in love; 8. Galen, Plato, and the physiology of eros; 9. Sex and the city: Plato, Aristotle, and Zeno of Kition on eros and philia; 10. Stoic eros is there such a thing?; PART 3: DIVINE EROS AND HUMAN EROS; 11. Eros in Hesiod; 12. From the gymnasium to the wedding: Eros in Athenian art and cult; 13. Love theory and political practice in Plutarch: The Amatorius and the Lives of Coriolanus and Alcibiades; PART 4: IMAGERY AND LANGUAGE OF EROS; 14. The imagery of eros in Plato's Phaedrus; 15. The language(s) of love in Aristophanes; 16. Worlds of eros in Ibycus fragment 286 (PMGF); 17. Lamp and erotic epigram: How an object sheds light on the lover's emotions; 18. Male bodies, male gazes: Exploring eros in the twelfth book of the Greek Anthology; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX