Erotic Muse: Poems in Greek and English on Love and Eros (The Hellenic Muses)

This collection is comprised of poems that eulogize Eros as a divine entity and refer to love as one of the strongest emotions and passions of the human psyche. The expression of love, considered as an evolved form of the basic creative urge, is polymorphic and multileveled, since it ranges from aesthetic and sexual attraction to psychical connection and spiritual approximation to the ideal of Kalon (Beauty), in accordance with the Platonic paradigm. As a human emotion, love is lived in its fullness between persons who desire to share their lives, their feelings, their thoughts, and their possessions, both material and spiritual, by putting into practice the Pythagorean precept that “friends have everything in common.” For this reason, lovers are bound to experience more acutely both the pain of separation and the joy of reunion. The work will be useful for students of Greek literature and thought, but also of interest to all lovers of the good, beautiful and true. Read more