This volume brings together eighteen articles which examine erôs as an emotion in ancient Greek culture. Taking into account all important thinking about the nature of erôs from the eighth century BCE to the third century CE, it covers a very broad range of sources and theoretical approaches, both in the chronological and the generic sense.

PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; PART 1: PHENOMENOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY OF EROS; PART 2: DEFINING EROS: PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE; PART 3: DIVINE EROS AND HUMAN EROS; PART 4: IMAGERY AND LANGUAGE OF EROS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Focuses on erôs as a key Greek emotion Takes into account all important thinking about the nature of erôs from the eighth century BC to the third century CE Contains contributions from key names in the field of Greek emotion studies

Ed Sanders is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research focuses on emotions in ancient Greece, especially in the literature of the Classical period. His forthcoming monograph, based on his PhD, is entitled Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens (OUP). Chiara Thumiger is a Research Associate at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Her present research focuses on mental insanity and its ancient representations in the Hippocratic texts and other literary sources. She has also worked on Greek tragedy and on animals in ancient literature, and is the author of Hidden Paths: Self and Characterization in Greek tragedy: Euripides' Bacchae. Christopher Carey is Professor of Greek at University College London. His research interests are very broad, including Pindar, drama, and above all oratory. He is the author of Democracy in Classical Athens as well as a large number of articles. He has also published a range of translations, commentaries, and edited volumes, in particular relating to the Attic oratorical corpus; these include the recent Oxford Classical Text Lysiae orationes cum fragmentis (Oxford, 2007), The speeches of Aeschines, Lysias: Selected Speeches, and Trials from Classical Athens. Nick J. Lowe is Reader in Classical Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is both a Greek and Latin literary specialist, and is particularly interested in comedy, prose fiction, narrative, and the interface between literary theory and cognitive science. He is the author of The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative and Comedy.

Focuses on erôs as a key Greek emotion Takes into account all important thinking about the nature of erôs from the eighth century BC to the third century CE Contains contributions from key names in the field of Greek emotion studies