[Antiquitas] to 19.9. esitelmä Vertoudakis

[Kajava, Mika I]

Torstaina 19.9. klo 16.15 vierailuluento Helsingin yliopistossa, Topelian salissa D112.

Prof. Vassilios Vertoudakis (Ateenan yliopisto) kertoo aiheesta:

Aristaenetus and the Inversion of Platonic Eros


Tiivistelmä

The name “Aristaenetus” refers to an unknown Greek-speaking writer of erotic fiction who can be dated to around 500 CE. His only surviving work is a corpus of fifty love stories in the form of fictional letters. At a time when Christianity was almost fully established in the Eastern Roman Empire, Aristaenetus wrote erotic literature and even dealt with eros in many versions other than marriage and monogamy. Homosexuality, however, is excluded.
This paper explores one of Aristaenetus’ fascinating literary tricks: How the author manages to compose love stories between men and women using passages from Platonic dialogues in which homosexual eros prevails. An attempt is made to interpret Aristaenetus’ literary technique in the context of the transition of erotic ethics from pagan Classical Antiquity to the Christian Middle Ages.


terv. Mika Kajava
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