By Anne Carson
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A publication approximately love as noticeable by way of the ancients, Eros is Anne Carson's exploration of the idea that of "eros" in either classical philosophy and literature.
Beginning with: "It used to be Sappho who first referred to as eros 'bittersweet.' not anyone who has been in love disputes her. What does the note mean?", Carson examines her topic from a number of issues of view and types, transcending the restrictions of the scholarly workout for an evocative and lyrical meditation within the culture of William Carlos William's Spring and All and William H. Gass's On Being Blue.
The insights awarded within the quantity are many and wide-ranging, recognizably in music with the subtlest sleek discussions of wish (such as triangulation. or loving what others love), but supplying new ideas to outdated difficulties, just like the right interpretation of Plato's Phaedrus. at the often mentioned impact of literacy on Greek civilization, the e-book bargains a clean view: it was once no coincidence that the poets who invented Eros have been additionally the 1st readers and writers of the Western literate tradition.
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Mock abduction of the bride formed the central action of the Spartan wedding ceremony and a similar rite may have been practiced at Lokri and other Greek states, including Athens (Sirvinou-Inwood 1973, 12-21). Painters who depict such rites on vases make clear by iconographic details of posture, gesture and facial expression that a scene of resistance and tension is being represented, not a happy and harmonious elopement. The abducting bridegroom may hold his bride diagonally across his body as he mounts the wedding chariot; the bride expresses unwillingness by various startled gestures of the left hand and arm; frequently she is seen pulling her veil across her face with one hand in the symbolic gesture of female aidōs (Jenkins, 1983, 137-45).
21), “stolen my reasoning mind” (Theognis 1271). Eros is expropriation. He robs the body of limbs, substance, integrity and leaves the lover, essentially, less. This attitude toward love is grounded for the Greeks in oldest mythical tradition: Hesiod describes in his Theogony how castration gave birth to the goddess Aphrodite, born from the foam around Ouranos’ severed genitals (189-200). Love does not happen without loss of vital self. The lover is the loser. Or so he reckons. 54 But his reckoning involves a quick and artful shift.
All at once a self never known before, which now strikes you as the true one, is coming into focus. A gust of godlikeness may pass through you and for an instant a great many things look knowable, possible and present. Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not even a whole self, as you now see. Your new knowledge of possibilities is also a knowledge of what is lacking in the actual. We might look, for purposes of comparison, at how this insight takes shape within the mind of a modern lover.