What’s Love got to do with it? Eros, Democracy, and Pericles’ Rhetoric

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  • Matteo Zaccarini University of Bologna, University of Edinburgh

Abstract

Pericles’ metaphor in the funeral oration, that the Athenians should become erastai of the city, would have been original and striking to his audience, as the connotations of eros in politics had normally been divisive and pejorative.

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2018-11-28

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