Quotes

Question 1

In Republic : Someone who exercises love for the soul…

Plato

Answer 1

‘reveres and respects temperance and courage and magnanimity and wisdom’

Question 2

‘‘The right kind of love is by nature the love of…

Plato

Answer 2

order and beauty and that has been moderated by philosophy, music and poetry’

Question 3

Showing the danger of desire , Excessive indulgence can …

Plato

Answer 3

“drive one mad just as much as pain does”

Question 4

Pausanias in Symposium talking of the difficulty finding the right partner in a homoerotic relationship
Plato

Answer 4

“there’s no telling how boys are going to turn out- whether their minds or their bodies will end up good or bad”

Question 5

Artistophanes quotes on homosexuality in story of spheres combatting accusations of immorality against homosexuals.
Plato

Answer 5

“the best of their generation, both as boys and young men”
“they are naturally the bravest”
“it’s not out of shamelessness that they do this but because they are bold, brave and masculine”

Question 6

Plato in Laws describing how the first homosexual relationships were unnatural…
Plato

Answer 6

“impelled by their slavery to pleasure

Question 7

What does Diotima suggest in Symposium is superior about homosexual relationships..
Plato

Answer 7

homoerotic relationships produce ideas and virtue and that this bond is often stronger than the bond which leads to the production of children

Question 8

Seneca in Letters on Morality talking of one immoral aspect of homosexuals…
Seneca

Answer 8

“Does it not seem to you to be living against nature, those who change their clothes for women’s?”

Question 9

Seneca criticism regarding men who engage in passive sex with other men
Seneca

Answer 9

“although his sex ought to have rescued him from this abuse, will not even his age rescue him from it”

Question 10

An inference we can make regarding Seneca’s views on homosexual relationships from Consolation to Helvia
Seneca

Answer 10

given Seneca’s statement that sex should only be indulged for the purposes of reproduction he wouldn’t have approved of male-male sex as it simply represented placing one’s desires over reason, something that was incompatible with a stoic way of life.

Question 11

Loeb 31 Sappho’s vivid description of her sexual experiences with a female lover.
Sappho

Answer 11

“When I see you […] sweat pours over me and a tremor seizes me all over”

Question 12

Loeb 24 provocatively describing her former lesbian relationships with other girls.
Sappho

Answer 12

“what we did when we were young, Many, beautiful things”

Question 13

Sappho description of desire as a “…” conveying its power

Sappho

Answer 13

“bittersweet invincible creature”

Question 14

Plato says how uncontrolled desire is ….

Plato

Answer 14

“compatible with violence and licentiousness”

Question 15

Plato in Republic says how his state would control …

Plato

Answer 15

“our desires that distort our perception of good”

Question 16

Seneca describes desire as a rushing stream and that if

Answer 16

“if reason succeeds, passions will not even begin”

Question 17

Seneca describes lust in Phaedra as

Answer 17

“unholy passion for gain”

Question 18

Seneca saw love as akin to

Answer 18

“friendship gone mad”

Question 19

Seneca illustrates how destructive lust can be through which story

Answer 19

Saturn’s golden age being destroyed and all the world’s ills and suffering caused from that very lust in Phaedra

Question 20

Seneca emphasis on reciprocity of emotions

Answer 20

“You must live for another, if you want to live for yourself”

Question 21

Seneca anti pleasures and lust

Answer 21

“there is a dishonourable stain on those who throw themselves into gluttonous pleasures and lust”

Question 22

Seneca Physical description of lust

Answer 22

“festering” like a wound

Question 23

Seneca Romantic love has the effect of

Answer 23

“firing souls up into the desire for a beautiful object, not without the hope of mutual affection”

Question 24

Seneca physical symptoms of desire

Answer 24

“the stings of lust which rips the soul apart”

Question 25

Seneca story of physical symptoms of (unnatural) desire

Answer 25

Phaedra’s longing for Hippolytus is incredibly strong and is depicted physically deteriorating. Beauty has disappeared from her form, no concern for food.

Question 26

Sappho Love is all consuming in 102 because

Answer 26

She can’t weave and has to call to her mother for help

Question 27

Loeb 2 Sappho describes sex

Answer 27

through natural metaphors and lures Aphrodite to Lesbos due to the flora and roses.

Question 28

Sappho Homeric references

Answer 28

Loeb 44- Wedding of Hec+And- but no foreboding of war
Loeb 17- Sappho appears to Hera just as Men+Ag did in Lesbos after Trojan war.
Loeb 16- Helen+Troy mentioned “Helen, most beautiful woman on earth abandoned her husband”- Homeric world but with added female agency

Question 29

Sappho physical effects of desire

Answer 29

“Love shook my soul”
“A delicate fire burned underneath my soul”
“Soothed my soul which was burning with desire”

Question 30

Men in her poetry

Answer 30

110 “Doorkeeper has size 22 feet”
31 Observer of her lover is a frustrating presence
Loeb 105C- “Like a hyacinth trodden by feet of Shepherd”

Question 31

Women in Sappho

Answer 31

Flighty + changeable - Loeb 49 She loved Atthis, but no longer.
Loeb 131 Atthis used to love her but now loves another girl

Question 32

Sex in Sappho’s poetry

Answer 32

Loeb 94- Use of smells and senses erotically, flowers, perfumes and garlands.
Loeb 105A- “sweet apple”
Loeb 105C- “Like a hyacinth trodden by feet of Shepherd”

Question 33

Sappho Marriage

Answer 33

112 “Lucky bridegroom your marriage has worked out well for you”
110+111 Shows ritual of consummating the wedding. Jovial +fun atmosphere
94- Honestly I want to die- because she is unable to be with the girl she loves.

Question 34

Ovid Part 1

Answer 34

“it’s not fair for armed men to battle with naked girls”

Question 35

Ovid suggesting his audience may not be female

Answer 35

“Don’t deny your delights to loving men […] what do you lose? It’s all intact” - In male interest
“The crowd come to be taught, girls pretty and plain: and always the greater part are not so good”
Mocking of his audience suggesting that there must be other members of the audience who these jokes are aimed at.
“Don’t laugh like a mangy ass braying at the mill”

Question 36

Ovid Importance of looking good

Answer 36

“Good wine comes from vines that are looked after”

“Conceal your faults and hide your body’s defects as best you may”

Question 37

Ovid humour

Answer 37

“Don’t laugh like a mangy ass braying at the mill”
Joking about the girl who put her hair on backwards
“I’m not teaching girls from the caucasian hills”

Question 38

Ovid art and artifice

Answer 38

“[Getting ready] makes for beauty but isn’t beautiful to watch”

Question 39

Ovid as Praeceptor Amoris

Answer 39

“before my eyes, stood Venus herself and ordered me to teach you”

“inscribe on your trophies, Ovid was my master”

Question 40

Ovid seeing love as a game

Answer 40

Begins in Part 1 “Only playful passions will be learnt from me”
End in Part 18 saying “The game is done: time to descend”
“It’s harmful for a girl not to know how to play: playing often brings love”

Question 41

Ovid Anti- Augustan

Answer 41

Tells women to meet men to have affairs (against Julian Laws) at the temples synonymous with Augustus himself.
Mocks the rural farming life talking of how he prefers the more vibrant city lifestyle.

Question 42

Ovid Instructions on behaviour

Answer 42

In Pt.5 he tells women how to behave according to their particular body types.
“Your voice is a better procuress than your looks”
“Laugh modestly”
Don’t get angry as anger makes the face red and ugly