The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Index Database

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subject	book bibliographic info
erotic, love and, eroticism,	Taylor and Hay (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Contemplative Life: Introduction, Translation and Commentary, 144, 253, 254, 257, 258
eroticism	Brule (2003), Women of Ancient Greece, 103, 104 Cain (2023), Mirrors of the Divine: Late Ancient Christianity and the Vision of God, 94 Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 16, 213, 215, 232 Kitzler (2015), From 'Passio Perpetuae' to 'Acta Perpetuae', 58, 59 Nissinen and Uro (2008), Sacred Marriages: The Divine-Human Sexual Metaphor from Sumer to Early Christianity, 24, 33, 197, 209, 212, 244, 246, 247, 248, 253, 254, 255, 258, 282, 427
eroticism, and monasticism	Brakke, Satlow, Weitzman (2005), Religion and the Self in Antiquity. 228
eroticism, and the self	Brakke, Satlow, Weitzman (2005), Religion and the Self in Antiquity. 229
eroticism, authentic versus copy, and	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 113, 114, 115
eroticism, collectors, and	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 70, 71
eroticism, dance, and	Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach (2021), Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond, 67, 75, 76, 77, 201, 202, 203, 204, 251, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289
eroticism, in art, athenaeus, on	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 113
eroticism, in art, valerius maximus, and	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 113
eroticism, in god–israel relationship	Stern (2004), From Rebuke to Consolation: Exegesis and Theology in the Liturgical Anthology of the Ninth of Av Season, 66, 140
eroticism, in plato’s works	Steiner (2001), Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought, 131, 132, 133
eroticism, in symposiums, erotic, love and	Taylor and Hay (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Contemplative Life: Introduction, Translation and Commentary, 243, 249, 254
eroticism, monasticism, and	Brakke, Satlow, Weitzman (2005), Religion and the Self in Antiquity. 228
eroticism, pederastic model	Brule (2003), Women of Ancient Greece, 81, 91, 131, 132, 134, 135
eroticism, pederasty	Brule (2003), Women of Ancient Greece, 81, 91, 131, 132, 134, 135
eroticism, petronius, and	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 114
eroticism, symposia, and	Taylor and Hay (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Contemplative Life: Introduction, Translation and Commentary, 243, 254, 256
eroticized, education	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 186, 187, 188

List of validated texts:

27 validated results for "eroticism"

1. Hebrew Bible, Song of Songs, 1.3-1.5, 2.3, 2.5, 2.14, 4.13, 5.1-5.10, 5.12-5.13, 5.15, 6.2, 6.9, 7.5 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • God–Israel relationship, eroticism in • Shivata Shir ha-Shirim (Yannai), erotic language of • eroticism

Found in books: Lieber (2014), A Vocabulary of Desire: The Song of Songs in the Early Synagogue, 198, 199, 200, 208; Nissinen and Uro (2008), Sacred Marriages: The Divine-Human Sexual Metaphor from Sumer to Early Christianity, 24, 209, 244, 246; Stern (2004), From Rebuke to Consolation: Exegesis and Theology in the Liturgical Anthology of the Ninth of Av Season, 140

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1.3 לְרֵיחַ שְׁמָנֶיךָ טוֹבִים שֶׁמֶן תּוּרַק שְׁמֶךָ עַל־כֵּן עֲלָמוֹת אֲהֵבוּךָ׃ ^1.4 מָשְׁכֵנִי אַחֲרֶיךָ נָּרוּצָה הֱבִיאַנִי הַמֶּלֶךְ חֲדָרָיו נָגִילָה וְנִשְׂמְחָה בָּךְ נַזְכִּירָה דֹדֶיךָ מִיַּיִן מֵישָׁרִים אֲהֵבוּךָ׃ ^1.5 שְׁחוֹרָה אֲנִי וְנָאוָה בְּנוֹת יְרוּשָׁלִָם כְּאָהֳלֵי קֵדָר כִּירִיעוֹת שְׁלֹמֹה׃ ^2.3 כְּתַפּוּחַ בַּעֲצֵי הַיַּעַר כֵּן דּוֹדִי בֵּין הַבָּנִים בְּצִלּוֹ חִמַּדְתִּי וְיָשַׁבְתִּי וּפִרְיוֹ מָתוֹק לְחִכִּי׃ ^2.5 סַמְּכוּנִי בָּאֲשִׁישׁוֹת רַפְּדוּנִי בַּתַּפּוּחִים כִּי־חוֹלַת אַהֲבָה אָנִי׃ ^2.14 יוֹנָתִי בְּחַגְוֵי הַסֶּלַע בְּסֵתֶר הַמַּדְרֵגָה הַרְאִינִי אֶתּ־מַרְאַיִךְ הַשְׁמִיעִינִי אֶת־קוֹלֵךְ כִּי־קוֹלֵךְ עָרֵב וּמַרְאֵיךְ נָאוֶה׃ ^4.13 שְׁלָחַיִךְ פַּרְדֵּס רִמּוֹנִים עִם פְּרִי מְגָדִים כְּפָרִים עִם־נְרָדִים׃ ^5.1 בָּאתִי לְגַנִּי אֲחֹתִי כַלָּה אָרִיתִי מוֹרִי עִם־בְּשָׂמִי אָכַלְתִּי יַעְרִי עִם־דִּבְשִׁי שָׁתִיתִי יֵינִי עִם־חֲלָבִי אִכְלוּ רֵעִים שְׁתוּ וְשִׁכְרוּ דּוֹדִים׃ ^5.1 דּוֹדִי צַח וְאָדוֹם דָּגוּל מֵרְבָבָה׃ ^5.2 אֲנִי יְשֵׁנָה וְלִבִּי עֵר קוֹל דּוֹדִי דוֹפֵק פִּתְחִי־לִי אֲחֹתִי רַעְיָתִי יוֹנָתִי תַמָּתִי שֶׁרֹּאשִׁי נִמְלָא־טָל קְוֻּצּוֹתַי רְסִיסֵי לָיְלָה׃ ^5.3 פָּשַׁטְתִּי אֶת־כֻּתָּנְתִּי אֵיכָכָה אֶלְבָּשֶׁנָּה רָחַצְתִּי אֶת־רַגְלַי אֵיכָכָה אֲטַנְּפֵם׃ ^5.4 דּוֹדִי שָׁלַח יָדוֹ מִן־הַחֹר וּמֵעַי הָמוּ עָלָיו׃ ^5.5 קַמְתִּי אֲנִי לִפְתֹּחַ לְדוֹדִי וְיָדַי נָטְפוּ־מוֹר וְאֶצְבְּעֹתַי מוֹר עֹבֵר עַל כַּפּוֹת הַמַּנְעוּל׃ ^5.6 פָּתַחְתִּי אֲנִי לְדוֹדִי וְדוֹדִי חָמַק עָבָר נַפְשִׁי יָצְאָה בְדַבְּרוֹ בִּקַּשְׁתִּיהוּ וְלֹא מְצָאתִיהוּ קְרָאתִיו וְלֹא עָנָנִי׃ ^5.7 מְצָאֻנִי הַשֹּׁמְרִים הַסֹּבְבִים בָּעִיר הִכּוּנִי פְצָעוּנִי נָשְׂאוּ אֶת־רְדִידִי מֵעָלַי שֹׁמְרֵי הַחֹמוֹת׃ ^5.8 הִשְׁבַּעְתִּי אֶתְכֶם בְּנוֹת יְרוּשָׁלִָם אִם־תִּמְצְאוּ אֶת־דּוֹדִי מַה־תַּגִּידוּ לוֹ שֶׁחוֹלַת אַהֲבָה אָנִי׃ ^5.9 מַה־דּוֹדֵךְ מִדּוֹד הַיָּפָה בַּנָּשִׁים מַה־דּוֹדֵךְ מִדּוֹד שֶׁכָּכָה הִשְׁבַּעְתָּנוּ׃' ^5.12 עֵינָיו כְּיוֹנִים עַל־אֲפִיקֵי מָיִם רֹחֲצוֹת בֶּחָלָב יֹשְׁבוֹת עַל־מִלֵּאת׃ ^5.13 לְחָיָו כַּעֲרוּגַת הַבֹּשֶׂם מִגְדְּלוֹת מֶרְקָחִים שִׂפְתוֹתָיו שׁוֹשַׁנִּים נֹטְפוֹת מוֹר עֹבֵר׃ ^5.15 שׁוֹקָיו עַמּוּדֵי שֵׁשׁ מְיֻסָּדִים עַל־אַדְנֵי־פָז מַרְאֵהוּ כַּלְּבָנוֹן בָּחוּר כָּאֲרָזִים׃ ^6.2 דּוֹדִי יָרַד לְגַנּוֹ לַעֲרוּגוֹת הַבֹּשֶׂם לִרְעוֹת בַּגַּנִּים וְלִלְקֹט שׁוֹשַׁנִּים׃ ^6.9 אַחַת הִיא יוֹנָתִי תַמָּתִי אַחַת הִיא לְאִמָּהּ בָּרָה הִיא לְיוֹלַדְתָּהּ רָאוּהָ בָנוֹת וַיְאַשְּׁרוּהָ מְלָכוֹת וּפִילַגְשִׁים וַיְהַלְלוּהָ׃ ^7.5 צַוָּארֵךְ כְּמִגְדַּל הַשֵּׁן עֵינַיִךְ בְּרֵכוֹת בְּחֶשְׁבּוֹן עַל־שַׁעַר בַּת־רַבִּים אַפֵּךְ כְּמִגְדַּל הַלְּבָנוֹן צוֹפֶה פְּנֵי דַמָּשֶׂק׃'' None

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1.3 Thine ointments have a goodly fragrance; Thy name is as ointment poured forth; Therefore do the maidens love thee. ^1.4 Draw me, we will run after thee; The king hath brought me into his chambers; We will be glad and rejoice in thee, We will find thy love more fragrant than wine! Sincerely do they love thee. ^1.5 ’I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, As the curtains of Solomon. ^2.3 As an apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. Under its shadow I delighted to sit, And its fruit was sweet to my taste. ^2.5 ’Stay ye me with dainties, refresh me with apples; For I am love-sick.’ ^2.14 O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the cliff, Let me see thy countece, let me hear thy voice; For sweet is thy voice, and thy countece is comely.’ ^4.13 Thy shoots are a park of pomegranates, With precious fruits; Henna with spikenard plants, ^5.1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; Drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. ^5.2 I sleep, but my heart waketh; Hark! my beloved knocketh: ‘Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.’ ^5.3 I have put off my coat; How shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; How shall I defile them? ^5.4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, And my heart was moved for him. ^5.5 I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands dropped with myrrh, And my fingers with flowing myrrh, Upon the handles of the bar. ^5.6 I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had turned away, and was gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. ^5.7 The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me. ^5.8 ’I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, what will ye tell him? That I am love-sick.’ ^5.9 ’What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than another beloved, That thou dost so adjure us?’ ^5.10 ’My beloved is white and ruddy, Pre-eminent above ten thousand. ^5.12 His eyes are like doves Beside the water-brooks; Washed with milk, And fitly set. ^5.13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, As banks of sweet herbs; His lips are as lilies, Dropping with flowing myrrh. ^5.15 His legs are as pillars of marble, Set upon sockets of fine gold; His aspect is like Lebanon, Excellent as the cedars. ^6.2 ’My beloved is gone down into his garden, To the beds of spices, To feed in the gardens, And to gather lilies. ^6.9 My dove, my undefiled, is but one; She is the only one of her mother; She is the choice one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her happy; Yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. ^7.5 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; Thine eyes as the pools in Heshbon, By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Thy nose is like the tower of Lebanon Which looketh toward Damascus.'' None

2. Homeric Hymns, To Aphrodite, 209, 212-217 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Erotes • Hermes, erotic, see also erotic context • erotic context • lover, as viewer of erotic art

Found in books: Elsner (2007), Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text, 184; Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 128; Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 268

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209 High-stepping horses such as carry men.²¹² Would live forever agelessly, atone ²¹³ With all the gods. So, when he heard of thi ²¹⁴ No longer did he mourn but, filled with bliss, ²¹⁵ On his storm-footed horses joyfully ²¹⁶ He rode away. Tithonus similarly ²¹⁷ Was seized by golden-throned Eos – he, too, ' None

3. None, None, nan (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Erotes • erotic context • erotic magic

Found in books: Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 254; Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 82; Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 261

4. None, None, nan (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • elegy, erotic • erotic magic, • homo-erotic,

Found in books: Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 619; Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 104; Keith and Myers (2023), Vergil and Elegy. 124

5. None, None, nan (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • erotic magic • erotic magic, • gaze, erotic, in magic

Found in books: Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 249; Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 104; Hubbard (2014), A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, 288

6. Xenophon, Symposium, 1.10, 9.7 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • dance, and eroticism • erotic dance • gaze, erotic, of spectators • professional entertainers, erotic aims/exploitations

Found in books: Cosgrove (2022), Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine, 156; Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach (2021), Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond, 67, 75, 76, 77; Hubbard (2014), A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, 247, 248

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9.7 At last, the banqueters, seeing them in each other’s embrace and obviously leaving for the bridal couch, those who were unwedded swore that they would take to themselves wives, and those who were already married mounted horse and rode off to their wives that they might enjoy them. As for Socrates and the others who had lingered behind, they went out with Callias to join Lycon and his son in their walk. So broke up the banquet held that evening.' ' None

7. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • erotic magic, • gaze, erotic, in magic

Found in books: Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 101; Hubbard (2014), A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, 288

8. None, None, nan (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • erotic magic • lovesick performer of erotic magic • therapeutic model for understanding curses and erotic magic

Found in books: Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 241, 249; Faraone (1999), Ancient Greek Love Magic, 82

9. Cicero, On The Ends of Good And Evil, 3.68 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristippus, Cyrenaic, Against erotic love • Heracleides of Pontos, Platonist, In favour of erotic love • Love, 2 kinds of erotic love in Socrates, Plato, Theophrastus, Alcinous, later Stoics • Love, Against erotic love, Antisthenes, Democritus, Epicurus, Lucretius, Aristippus, Cynics, Epictetus • Love, In favour of (some kind of) erotic love, Aristotle, Heracleides, most Stoics, Plutarch • desire, and erotic love • eupatheiai, include erotic love • love, erotic or sexual, eupathic • love, erotic or sexual, ordinary

Found in books: Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 251; Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 280

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3.68 Cum autem ad tuendos conservandosque homines hominem natum esse videamus, consentaneum est huic naturae, ut sapiens velit gerere et administrare rem publicam atque, ut e natura vivat, uxorem adiungere et velle ex ea liberos. ne amores quidem sanctos a sapiente alienos esse arbitrantur. arbitramur BE Cynicorum autem rationem atque vitam alii cadere in sapientem dicunt, si qui qui ARN 1 V quis BEN 2 eius modi forte casus inciderit, ut id faciendum sit, alii nullo modo.'' None

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3.68 \xa0Again, since we see that man is designed by nature to safeguard and protect his fellows, it follows from this natural disposition, that the Wise Man should desire to engage in politics and government, and also to live in accordance with nature by taking to himself a wife and desiring to have children by her. Even the passion of love when pure is not thought incompatible with the character of the Stoic sage. As for the principles and habits of the Cynics, some say that these befit the Wise Man, if circumstances should happen to indicate this course of action; but other Stoics reject the Cynic rule unconditionally. <'' None

10. Ovid, Fasti, 3.177, 3.675-3.676, 4.946, 5.194, 5.225-5.226 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Hermes, erotic, see also erotic context • elegy, erotic • erotic • erotic art • erotic context • medieval school author, resistance to erotic desire

Found in books: Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 18, 19, 210; Fielding (2017), Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity. 151, 175; Keith and Myers (2023), Vergil and Elegy. 210; McGinn (2004), The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman world: A study of Social History & The Brothel. 126; Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 133

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3.675 nunc mihi cur cantent superest obscena puellae ^3.676 dicere; nam coeunt certaque probra canunt, ^5.226 infelix, quod non alter et alter eras.' ' None

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3.675 Since they gather together to sing certain infamous things. ^3.676 Anna had lately been made a goddess: Gradivus came to her ^5.226 And a lament remains written on its petals.' ' None

11. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.453-1.462, 1.465, 4.320-4.321 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Epigram, erotic • Hermes, erotic, see also erotic context • Orpheus,, erotic content in songs of • censorship, erotic subjects and • elegy, erotic • erotic context

Found in books: Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 97, 100, 109, 110, 112, 113; Keith and Myers (2023), Vergil and Elegy. 203, 314; Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 12; Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 134, 143, 144, 146, 147, 148, 152

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1.453 fors ignara dedit, sed saeva Cupidinis ira. ^1.454 Delius hunc, nuper victa serpente superbus, ^1.455 viderat adducto flectentem cornua nervo ^1.456 “quid” que “tibi, lascive puer, cum fortibus armis?” ^1.457 dixerat, “ista decent umeros gestamina nostros, ^1.458 qui dare certa ferae, dare vulnera possumus hosti, ^1.460 stravimus innumeris tumidum Pythona sagittis. ^1.461 Tu face nescio quos esto contentus amores ^1.462 inritare tua, nec laudes adsere nostras.” ^1.465 cuncta deo tanto minor est tua gloria nostra.” ^4.321 esse deus, seu tu deus es, potes esse Cupido,' ' None

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1.453 their waves subsided; hidden hills uprose; ^1.454 emerged the shores of ocean; channels filled ^1.455 with flowing streams; the soil appeared; the land ^1.456 increased its surface as the waves decreased: ^1.457 and after length of days the trees put forth, ^1.458 with ooze on bending boughs, their naked tops. ^1.460 but as he viewed the vast and silent world ^1.461 Deucalion wept and thus to Pyrrha spoke; ^1.462 “O sister! wife! alone of woman left! ^1.465 doubly endeared by deepening dangers borne,— ^4.321 and Night resumes his reign, the god appear' ' None

12. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Epicureanism, on erotic desire • Epigram, erotic • Erotic desire • Love, Against erotic love, Antisthenes, Democritus, Epicurus, Lucretius, Aristippus, Cynics, Epictetus • Lucretius, Epicurean, Erotic love discouraged • furor, and erotic / sexual desire • restlessness, erotic

Found in books: Bowditch (2001), Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination, 213, 214; Kazantzidis (2021), Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura", 52, 53, 54, 56; Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 12; Nijs (2023), The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus. 74; Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 275, 283

13. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • elegy, erotic • erotic context

Found in books: Keith and Myers (2023), Vergil and Elegy. 314; Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 141, 142, 144, 145

14. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • censorship, erotic subjects and • elegy, erotic • erotic • erotic art

Found in books: Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 19; Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 112; Keith and Myers (2023), Vergil and Elegy. 192, 314; McGinn (2004), The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman world: A study of Social History & The Brothel. 127

15. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Epigram, erotic • elegy, erotic

Found in books: Keith and Myers (2023), Vergil and Elegy. 92, 95; Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 11, 12

16. Lucan, Pharsalia, 6.449 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • erotic magic, • magic and magicians, erotic

Found in books: Dignas Parker and Stroumsa (2013), Priests and Prophets Among Pagans, Jews and Christians, 159; Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 20

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6.449 And thus Asopus takes his ordered course, Phoenix and Melas; but Eurotas keeps His stream aloof from that with which he flows, Peneus, gliding on his top as though Upon the channel. Fable says that, sprung From darkest pools of Styx, with common floods He scorns to mingle, mindful of his source, So that the gods above may fear him still. Soon as were sped the rivers, Boebian ploughs Dark with its riches broke the virgin soil; '' None

17. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • collectors, and eroticism • erotic art

Found in books: McGinn (2004), The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman world: A study of Social History & The Brothel. 113, 119; Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 70, 71

18. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Erotes • magic and magicians, erotic

Found in books: Bowie (2023), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, Volume 2: Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels. 714; Dignas Parker and Stroumsa (2013), Priests and Prophets Among Pagans, Jews and Christians, 140

19. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • elegy, erotic • epigrams, erotic • epyllion, erotics, of epigram • erotic art • eroticism

Found in books: Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 213; Goldhill (2020), Preposterous Poetics: The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity, 42; Keith and Myers (2023), Vergil and Elegy. 314; McGinn (2004), The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman world: A study of Social History & The Brothel. 124, 127, 128

20. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Athenaeus, on eroticism in art • Valerius Maximus, and eroticism in art • authentic versus copy, and eroticism • collectors, and eroticism • erotic art

Found in books: McGinn (2004), The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman world: A study of Social History & The Brothel. 129, 130; Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 70, 71, 113

21. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • consolation, erotic • lover, as viewer of erotic art

Found in books: Alexiou and Cairns (2017), Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After. 293; Elsner (2007), Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text, 185

22. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Athenaeus, on eroticism in art • Lucian, and erotic response to art • Petronius, and eroticism • Valerius Maximus, and eroticism in art • authentic versus copy, and eroticism • gaze, erotic

Found in books: Hubbard (2014), A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, 40; Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 113, 114

23. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • erotic magic, • gaze, erotic, in magic

Found in books: Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 101, 114; Hubbard (2014), A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, 288

24. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 7.33, 7.129, 10.118 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristippus, Cyrenaic, Against erotic love • Chrysippus, treatises of, On Erotic Love • Cicero, on erotic love • Erotic desire • Heracleides of Pontos, Platonist, In favour of erotic love • Love, 2 kinds of erotic love in Socrates, Plato, Theophrastus, Alcinous, later Stoics • Love, Against erotic love, Antisthenes, Democritus, Epicurus, Lucretius, Aristippus, Cynics, Epictetus • Love, In favour of (some kind of) erotic love, Aristotle, Heracleides, most Stoics, Plutarch • Lucretius, Epicurean, Erotic love discouraged • Zeno of Citium, on erotic love • beauty, and erotic love • desire, and erotic love • education, eroticized • eupatheiai, include erotic love • friendship, within erotic love • love, erotic • love, erotic or sexual, eupathic • love, erotic or sexual, ordinary • sex, and erotic love • virtue, in erotic love

Found in books: Despotis and Lohr (2022), Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions, 223; Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 186, 232, 251, 252; Nijs (2023), The Epicurean Sage in the Ethics of Philodemus. 74; Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 275, 280

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7.33 Again, in the Republic, making an invidious contrast, he declares the good alone to be true citizens or friends or kindred or free men; and accordingly in the view of the Stoics parents and children are enemies, not being wise. Again, it is objected, in the Republic he lays down community of wives, and at line 200 prohibits the building of sanctuaries, law-courts and gymnasia in cities; while as regards a currency he writes that we should not think it need be introduced either for purposes of exchange or for travelling abroad. Further, he bids men and women wear the same dress and keep no part of the body entirely covered. ^7.129 Neither do they think that the divergence of opinion between philosophers is any reason for abandoning the study of philosophy, since at that rate we should have to give up life altogether: so Posidonius in his Exhortations. Chrysippus allows that the ordinary Greek education is serviceable.It is their doctrine that there can be no question of right as between man and the lower animals, because of their unlikeness. Thus Chrysippus in the first book of his treatise On Justice, and Posidonius in the first book of his De officio. Further, they say that the wise man will feel affection for the youths who by their countece show a natural endowment for virtue. So Zeno in his Republic, Chrysippus in book i. of his work On Modes of Life, and Apollodorus in his Ethics.' "^10.118 When on the rack, however, he will give vent to cries and groans. As regards women he will submit to the restrictions imposed by the law, as Diogenes says in his epitome of Epicurus' ethical doctrines. Nor will he punish his servants; rather he will pity them and make allowance on occasion for those who are of good character. The Epicureans do not suffer the wise man to fall in love; nor will he trouble himself about funeral rites; according to them love does not come by divine inspiration: so Diogenes in his twelfth book. The wise man will not make fine speeches. No one was ever the better for sexual indulgence, and it is well if he be not the worse."' None

25. Vergil, Aeneis, 5.296, 5.334, 9.446-9.449
Tagged with subjects: • elegy, erotic • gaze, erotic, of spectators

Found in books: Hubbard (2014), A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, 252, 253; Keith and Myers (2023), Vergil and Elegy. 77, 302, 316

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5.296 Nisus amore pio pueri; quos deinde secutus ^5.334 Non tamen Euryali, non ille oblitus amorum; ^9.446 Fortunati ambo! Siquid mea carmina possunt, ^9.447 nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo, ^9.448 dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum ^9.449 accolet imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.'' None

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5.296 with Mnestheus, cleaving her last stretch of sea, ^5.334 with the green laurel-garland; to the crews ^9.446 that no man smite behind us. I myself ^9.447 will mow the mighty fieid, and lead thee on ^9.448 in a wide swath of slaughter.” With this word ^9.449 he shut his lips; and hurled him with his sword '' None

26. Vergil, Georgics, 4.457-4.461
Tagged with subjects: • Orpheus,, erotic content in songs of • elegy, erotic

Found in books: Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 97, 100; Keith and Myers (2023), Vergil and Elegy. 192, 314

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4.457 Illa quidem, dum te fugeret per flumina praeceps, ^4.458 immanem ante pedes hydrum moritura puella ^4.459 servantem ripas alta non vidit in herba. ^4.460 At chorus aequalis Dryadum clamore supremos ^4.461 implerunt montes; flerunt Rhodopeiae arces' ' None

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4.457 Stands woebegone and weeping, and by name ^4.458 Cries out upon thee for thy cruelty.” ^4.459 To whom, strange terror knocking at her heart, ^4.460 “Bring, bring him to our sight,” the mother cried; ^4.461 “His feet may tread the threshold even of Gods.”' ' None

27. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • erotic art • erotic inscriptions

Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 503, 504; McGinn (2004), The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman world: A study of Social History & The Brothel. 270, 271, 275, 280

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