Eros Unveiled: Plato and the God of Love

by Catherine Osborne

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This unique book challenges the traditional distinction between eros, the love found in Greek thought, and agape, the love characteristic of Christianity. Focusing on a number of classic texts, including Plato's Symposium and Lysis, Aristotle's Ethics and Metaphysics, , and famous passages in Gregory of Nyssa, Origen, Dionysius the Areopagite, Plotinus, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas, the author shows that Plato's account of eros is not founded on...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0198267665

ISBN13:9780198267669

Release Date:July 1996

Publisher:Clarendon Press

Length:260 Pages

Weight:0.71 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Ancient & Classical Literature Criticism & Theory Education & Reference Greek History & Criticism History & Surveys Humanities Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences Religion Religion & Spirituality Religious Studies

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