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Eros the bittersweet an essay

Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including classicists, essayists, poets, and general readers. Beginning with the poet Sapph...

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Main Author: Carson, Anne, 1950- (Author)
Corporate Author: Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C.)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1986]
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Subjects:
Eros > (Greek deity)
Love.
Essays.
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Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Bittersweet
  • Gone
  • Ruse
  • Tactics
  • The reach
  • Finding the edge
  • Logic at the edge
  • Losing the edge
  • Archilochos at the edge
  • Alphabetic edge
  • What does the lover want from love?
  • Symbolon
  • A novel sense
  • Something paradoxical
  • My page makes love
  • Letters, letters
  • Folded meanings
  • Bellerophon is quite wrong after all
  • Realist
  • Ice-pleasure
  • Now then
  • Erotikos logos
  • The sidestep
  • Damage to the living
  • Midas
  • Cicadas
  • Gardening for fun and profit
  • Something serious is missing
  • Takeover
  • Read me the bit again
  • Then ends where now begins
  • What a difference a wing makes
  • What is the dialogue about?
  • Mythoplokos
  • Bibliography
  • Index of passages discussed
  • General index.

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