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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893. Studies in sexual inversion. New York : Medical Press of New York, 1964 (OCoLC)613193687 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Addington Symonds |
OCLC Number: | 2623472 |
Description: | 191 pages ; 20 cm |
Contents: | Part One -- a problem in Greek ethics. Introduction: method of treating the subject -- Homer had no knowledge of paiderastia -- Achilles -- treatment of Homer by the later Greeks -- The romance of Achilles and Patroclus -- The heroic ideal of masculine love -- Vulgar paiderastia -- how introduced into Hellas -- Crete -- Laius -- the myth of Ganymede -- Discrimination of two loves, heroic and vulgar. The mixed sort is the paiderastia defined as Greek love in this essay. -- The intensity of paiderastia as an emotion, and its quality -- Myths of paiderastia -- Semi-legendary tales of love -- Harmodius and Aristogeiton -- Dorian customs -- Sparta and Crete -- conditions of Dorian life -- moral quality of Dorian love -- its final degeneracy -- Paiderastia in poetry of the lyric age -- Paiderastia upon the Attic stage -- Recapitulation of points -- Distinctions drawn by Attic law and custom -- chrestoi pornoi -- presents and money -- atimia of freemen who had sold their bodies -- Platonic doctrine on Greek love -- Greek liberty and Greek love extinguished at Chæronea -- The deep root struck by paiderastia in Greece -- position of women -- Relation of paiderastia to the fine arts -- Homosexuality among Greek women -- Greek love did not exist at Rome -- Part two -- a problem in modern ethics. Christian opinion from the age of Justinian -- Vulgar errors -- Literature: pornographic and descriptive -- Carlier, Les deux Prostitutions -- Literature: medico-forensic -- Tardieu -- Literature: medical-psychological -- Moreau, Tarnowski, Krafft-Ebing, Lombroso -- Literature: historical and anthropological -- Meier, "A problem in Greek Ethics:; Rosenbaum, Bastian, Herbert Spencer, Sir Richard Burton, Mantegazza -- Literature: Polemical -- Karl Heinrich Ulrichs -- Literature: Idealistic -- Walt Whitman. |
Responsibility: | by John Addington Symonds. |
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