Plato's Eros and Dante's Amore
Both Dante and Plato inherited from the past a complex of attitudes, legends and literature about love, and in both cases it was a special kind of love, love as an ennobling passion. Plato confronted the problem of so-called Dorian love, imported into cultured Attica from the Dorian regions of Greec...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
1956
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Traditio
Year: 1956, Volume: 12, Pages: 315-337 |
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| Summary: | Both Dante and Plato inherited from the past a complex of attitudes, legends and literature about love, and in both cases it was a special kind of love, love as an ennobling passion. Plato confronted the problem of so-called Dorian love, imported into cultured Attica from the Dorian regions of Greece where it had formed part of the ethos of a warrior class. It soon became a widespread practice, and in its most refined form it was conceived of as a passion which made the warrior brave and engendered civic as well as military virtues. The stories of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, Cratinus and Aristodemus, the later versions of the friendship of Achilles and Patroclus, all testify to the military and civic heroism which was believed to emerge from this form of masculine affection. |
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| ISSN: | 2166-5508 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0362152900007716 |