Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Notes
List of Contributors
1: Ed Sanders and Chiara Thumiger: Introduction
Part 1: Phenomenology and psychology of erôsChiara Thumiger:
2: David Konstan: Between appetite and emotion, or Why can't animals have erôs?
3: Chiara Thumiger: Mad erôs and eroticized madness in tragedy
4: Ed Sanders: Sexual jealousy and erôs in Euripides Medea
5: Armand D Angour: Love's battlefield: Rethinking Sappho fragment 31
6: Monstrous love? Erotic reciprocity in Aelian's De natura animalium
Part 2: Defining erôs: Philosophy and scienceChiara Thumiger:
7: Olivier Renaut: Challenging Platonic erôs: The role of thumos and philotimia in love
8: Ralph M. Rosen: Galen, Plato, and the physiology of erôs
9: Eleni Leontsini: Sex and the city: Plato, Aristotle, and Zeno of Kition on erôs and philia
10: Christopher Gill: Stoic erôs is there such a thing?
Part 3: Divine Eros and human erôsChiara Thumiger:
11: Glenn W. Most: Eros in Hesiod
12: Emma Stafford: From the gymnasium to the wedding: Eros in Athenian art and cult
13: Michele A. Lucchesi: Love theory and political practice in Plutarch: The Amatorius and the Lives of Coriolanus and Alcibiades
Part 4: Imagery and language of erôsChiara Thumiger:
14: Douglas Cairns: The imagery of erôs in Plato's Phaedrus
15: James Robson: The language(s) of love in Aristophanes
16: Vanessa Cazzato: Worlds of erôs in Ibycus fragment 286 (PMGF)
17: Maria Kanellou: Lamp and erotic epigram: How an object sheds light on the lover's emotions
18: Andreas Fountoulakis: Male bodies, male gazes: Exploring erôs in the twelfth book of the Greek Anthology
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

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).
Chiara Thumiger is a Research Associate at the Humboldt Universität 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.
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.
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 The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative and Comedy.

Reviews

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