Eros and Desire: From Sappho to Foucault

Reading:

Carson, Eros the Bittersweet 

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Supplemental readings: 

Sappho [Julia Dubnoff translations]

Archilochus [Guy Davenport translations]

Anacreon [assorted translations]

Catullus [compiled by Pro. Rudy R. Negenborn]

Recommended: 

Nietzsche, The Gay Science §14; §361

Cornford, “The Doctrine of Eros in Plato’s Symposium”