The Poetics of Eros: From Plato to C. P. Cavafy

Semester: Fall
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Year offered: 2012
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Catalog Number: 97799 
Panagiotis Roilos 
Half course (fall term). M., 4–6.
Explores postclassical Greek and broader European literary receptions of Plato’s theory of eros. Special emphasis is placed on the rediscovery of "Hellenic love" in British aestheticism and Greek modernism, especially in C. P. Cavafy.