Eros paidikos kontra miłość do kobiety w Dialogu o miłości erotycznej Plutarcha i Bogach miłości Lukiana

• Authors: Sowa, Joanna

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Eros paidikos vs. female love in Plutarch’s Amatorius and Lucian’s Amores

Abstracts

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In this paper, I examine the debate between advocates of male and female love in two works dedicated to this subject: Plutarch’s Amatorius (Dialogue on Love) and Lucian’s Amores (Affairs of the Heart). Plutarch, drawing on Platonic tradition, accepts and praises eros paidikos, but he condemns homosexual intercourse as an act of hybris. On the other hand, Plutarch rejects traditional Greek prejudices against women and glorifies marriage as the highest form of human relationship: he argues that conjugal love contains both the lifelong friendship and sexual relations which are a source of mutual kindness, respect and affection. In Lucian’s work the defender of pederasty, portraying it as a spiritual relationship and a mark of advanced cultural evolution, wins the debate; but in the last part of dialogue moral demands of sexual restraint in pederasty are mocked, and sexual pleasure is called “a mediator of friendship”.

Keywords

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Plutarch of Chaeronea; Pseudo-Lucian of Samosata; pederasty; marriage; male vs. female love

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Collectanea Philologica
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 17

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2014

Contributors

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Sowa, Joanna

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Uniwersytet Łódzki, Katedra Filologii Klasycznej, Zakład Hellenistyki

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Classical philol- ogist, head of the Chair of Classical Philology at University of Łódź. Research interests: literature and philosophy of ancient Greece, especially ethics by Plato and Aristotle. Publications: Platon, Lizys, „Collectanea Philologica” X (2007); Między Erosem i Arete. Przyjaźń w etyce Platona i Arystotelesa, Wydawnictwo UŁ, Łódź 2009

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http://hdl.handle.net/11089/6121