scholarship Flashcards
Calame on Sappho
- sappho was a part of education
- taught girls the journey from wild, prenubile virginity (artemis) to domesticated marital sex (Hera & Aph)
Hallett on Sappho
- used more to value the marriagable virgins and raise their confidence
Snyder on Sappho
- believes Sappho just loves women (lesbian)
Parker on Sappho
- believes that Sappho’s relationship would be accepted
- she composed for aristocratic women’s sympotic gatherings
Alba Morano on Ovid’s love games
love is ‘the art of out manoevering the partner’
D’Elia on Ovid and homosexual activity
he detested homosexual activity in which one partner is no more than a victim to the other’s desire
Bishop on Ovid and the audience of ars amatoria
‘Critics have repeatedly felt that the poems lack sincerity’
Motto on Seneca and ideals of love
for Seneca, ‘true love is anlogous to an ideal friendship’
Kreitner on Seneca and sex
The stoics held that sexual intercourse is the very antithesis of reason and therefore should be avoided
Gloyn on Seneca and his opinion on desire in the relationship
Seneca deplores those relationships where amor has turned to affectus because reason has been lost
Gloyn on Seneca and homoerotic relationships
he is far more concerned about behaviour ‘against nature’ which involve extravagant and expensive displays than he is about same sex desire
Elizabeth Brake on Plato and homoerotic relationships
homoerotic love is related to education and gaining knowledge, and this makes it superior to other types of love.
Elizabeth Brake on Socrates and his behaviour towards physical desire
Socrates even rejects all kinds of physical contact as some sort of unbridled behaviour
Peter jones on athenians and pederasty data
estimates that only 1-2% of the athenian population engaged in pederasty
Hornblower on ovid and marriage
he was married three times and divorced before he was 30
