Barbara Breitenberger
Autore di Aphrodite and Eros: The Development of Erotic Mythology in Early Greek Poetry and Cult (Stidies in Classics)
Opere di Barbara Breitenberger
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In reading about eroticism, the first divine being one would hear of is Eros, the male love god. (Read my previous review of symposium). But in fact, eros was not very important in antiquity, he was seen to be an underling, an aspect, of Aphrodite, sometimes even considered her son.
Eros only really became more prominent and revered with the Athenian aristocracy’s institutionalisation of paederasty (homosexual relations between men & younger boys). So Eros was developed in symposiums, these dinner parties with male elites, by poets. He embodied the divinized ideal of the beloved male youth, and thus became the male counterpart to Aphrodite in that way.… (altro)