Setting Plato straight : translating ancient sexuality in the Renaissance

Setting Plato straight : translating ancient sexuality in the Renaissance /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reeser, Todd W., 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Plato > Translations > History and criticism.
Plato > Themes, motives.
Homosexuality in literature
Eroticism in literature
Greek literature > Europe > Translations > History and criticism.
Translating and interpreting > Europe > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Solving the problem with Plato
  • The antitheses of same-sex sexuality in Bruni
  • Ficino and the theory of purging same-sex sexuality
  • Ficino and the practice of purging same-sex sexuality
  • Importing Ficino: gender balance in Champier
  • Seducing Socrates: the Silenus in Erasmus and Rabelais
  • The gates of Germania: space, place, and sexuality in Cornarius
  • Fractured men: feminism and neoplatonism in mid-sixteenth-century France
  • Orientations: female-female and male-male eros in dialogue
  • Reading sexuality skeptically in Montaigne
  • Conclusion: bending Plato.

Similar Items