13. The Poetics of Eros: Nature, Art, and Imitation in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. PREFACE xv
5. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xvii
6. INTRODUCTION 1
7. 1. Herakles: The Super-Male and the Feminine 21
8. 2. The Sexual Life of Satyrs 53
9. 3. Aspects of Baubo: Ancient Texts and Contexts 83
10. 4. From Sex to Politics: The Rites of Artemis Triklaria and Dionysos Aisymnetes at Patras 115
11. 5. Putting Her in Her Place: Woman, Dirt, and Desire 135
12. 6. Laying Down the Law: The Oversight of Men's Sexual Behavior in Classical Athens 171
13. 7. From Ambiguity to Ambivalence: A Dionysiac Excursion through the "Anakreontic" Vases 211
14. 8. Why Is Diotima a Woman? Platonic Eros and the Figuration of Gender 257
15. 9. The Medical Writers' Woman 309
16. 10. Maidenhood without Maidenhead: The Female Body in Ancient Greece 339
17. 11. The Future of Dreams: From Freud to Artemidoros 365
18. 12. The Semiotics of Gender: Physiognomy and Self-Fashioning in the Second Century C.E. 389
19. 13. The Poetics of Eros: Nature, Art, and Imitation in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe 417
20. 14. One . . . Two . . . Three: Eros 465
21. 15. Bodies and Minds: Sexuality and Renunciation in Early Christianity 479
22. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 495
23. INDEX OF PASSAGES DISCUSSED 499
24. GENERAL INDEX 511