Setting Plato straight : translating ancient sexuality in the Renaissance /
Reeser, Todd W., 1967-
Setting Plato straight : translating ancient sexuality in the Renaissance / Todd W. Reeser. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780226307145
Plato--Translations--History and criticism.
Plato--Themes, motives.
Homosexuality in literature.
Eroticism in literature.
Greek literature--Translations--History and criticism.--Europe
Translating and interpreting--History.--Europe
Electronic Books.
PA4291 / .S488 2016
Setting Plato straight : translating ancient sexuality in the Renaissance / Todd W. Reeser. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780226307145
Plato--Translations--History and criticism.
Plato--Themes, motives.
Homosexuality in literature.
Eroticism in literature.
Greek literature--Translations--History and criticism.--Europe
Translating and interpreting--History.--Europe
Electronic Books.
PA4291 / .S488 2016