Eros: the myth of ancient Greek sexuality

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translation -- Introduction: "Custom the King of All" -- Part One The "Controlless Core" -- 1 The "Tyrant of Gods and Men" -- Madness and the Irrational -- Death, Violence, War -- "Thermos Eros," -- Erotic Disease -- Wind, Sea, and Storm -- The Beasts of Love -- The "Very God of Evil," -- 2 The Golden Child of the Bloody Foam -- Aphrodite and Helen -- The Seduction of Zeus -- Fear and Desire on Mt. Ida -- Sappho's Aphrodite -- "Something Greater Than a God," -- Her Cruel Smile -- Aphrodite Domesticated—Somewhat -- The Goddess of Gold and Blood -- 3 Pandora's "Foul Tribe of Women" -- The Charybdis of Appetite -- The Daughters of Earth and Blood -- The Mother of Them All -- "The Memorial of Disasters," -- The Lion in the House -- The Child-Killer -- Phaedra -- "Man-Slaughterer," -- The Power of Pandora's Tribe -- 4 Monsters of Appetite -- Culture or Nature? -- The Heterosexual Paradigm -- Outrage and Shame -- The Itch of Appetite -- The Controlless Core -- Part One The "Fancied Sway" -- 5 Taming the Beasts -- Cosmic Love -- The "Steersman of the Soul," -- The Order of the Soul -- 6 Erotic Technology -- Flowers, Fruit, Furrows -- The Technology of Ritual -- Putting Aphrodite in Her Place -- Cultivating the Cyclopses' Island -- 7 Wives and the Order of the House -- Sowing Heirs and Citizens -- The Most Important Possession: A Chaste Wife -- Preserving the Household -- Home Economics -- Andromache -- Alcestis -- Circumspect Penelope -- The Rehabilitation of Helen -- The Technology of Marriage -- 8 Eros the Pedagogue -- The Heterosexual Paradigm Revisited -- The Drinking Party -- Outrage, Shame, and "Just Eros," -- Taming the Horses of the Soul