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Eros: The Myth Of Ancient Greek Sexuality
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More : Bruce S Thornton Classics scholar Bruce S. Thornton argues that the Greeks were not hedonistic and saw Eros as a dangerous force in need of control. Thornton offers an iconoclastic account of ancient sexuality that links the wary attitudes of the Greeks to our own modern concerns about love, sex, and family. We see here a vision of sexuality that is perhaps more honest and mature than our own dangerous illusions. Review: To begin with, pace the Kirkus Review reviewer, whose review is not worthy of being posted: this book is not an apologetic for Greekany other misogyny. Feminists usually understand the fact that just as it is not equivalent to anti-Semitism to be in opposition to certain policies of the State of Israel, it is also not equivalent to misogyny to disagree with certain claims that are advanced under the banner of feminism (particularly of radical feminism). In this book, Thornton does question certain claims that have become status quo in at least the form of fairly radical feminism that has become the current orthodoxy in academia and the American Left; so what? Does this make his book a "misogynist" work? Not at all, and the Kirkus reviewer claiming that it is such should think twice before making such an accusation, as should all people... Quote: I Have Put A Lot Of Time And Hard Work On This Upload & Post
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