TY - BOOK ED - Sanders, Ed AB - Arising out of a conference on ‘Erôs in Ancient Greece’, the articles in this volume share a historicizing approach to the conventions and expectations of erôs in the context of the polis, in the Archaic and Classical periods of ancient Greece. The articles focus on (post-Homeric) Archaic and Classical poetic genres – namely lyric poetry, tragedy, and comedy – and some philosophical texts by Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle. They pursue a variety of issues, including: the connection between homosexual erôs and politics; sexual practices that fell outside societal norms (aristocratic homosexuality, chastity); the roles of sôphrosynê (self-control) and akrasia (incontinence) in erotic relationships; and the connection between erôs and other socially important emotions such as charis, philia, and storgê. The exploration of such issues from a variety of standpoints, and through a range of texts, allows us to place erôs as an emotion in its socio-political context. DO - 10.14296/917.9781905670789 ID - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20200527_9781905670789_21 KW - Ancient history: to c 500 CE L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/5eb13b7c-030f-4e96-90cf-a438295c6941/9781905670789.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39395 PB - University of London Press PP - London PY - 2019 SN - 9781905670444 TI - Erôs and the Polis : Love in context ER -