L&R Scholars

Question 1

Annas - men and women in Athens

Answer 1

They have virtually no interaction with the social, political or romantic lives of men

Question 2

Freeman- Bridal Virginity

Answer 2

The greek emphasis on the bridal virginity is a form of masculine oppression against young women

Question 3

Edith Hall - Homosexuality

Answer 3

Ancient greek society was deeply homosocial

Question 4

Grube - Status of gay love

Answer 4

Homosexual love also be was generally regarded but the Greeks as fulfilling the highest desires of men

Question 5

Water field - homoeroticism natural?

Answer 5

In ancient Athens, homoeroticism was considered perfectly natural, especially in the leisured classes

Question 6

Freeman - female homosexuality

Answer 6

Through most of the greek and roman world there was less tolerance for same sex relations between women

Question 7

Orells - Platos concern

Answer 7

plato is chiefly concerned with matters of the polis

Question 8

lane - philosophers + desire

Answer 8

plato believes philosopher “should have no desire for excessive physical satisfaction

Question 9

waterfield - sex

Answer 9

sex is “the love that enslaves us

Question 10

dodds sex

Answer 10

plato expresses that sexual gratification distracts us

Question 11

goldhill - love + control

Answer 11

proper love is all about self control

Question 12

Waterfield - Socrates + desire

Answer 12

socrates seems to have exercised self restraint and to have disaproves of the sexual side of homeoerotic love

Question 13

lane portrayal of desire

Answer 13

plato presents desire as something to be controlled

Question 14

karanika - sappho + marriage

Answer 14

sappho deeply communicates the female anxiety towards marriage

Question 15

wilson - sappho’s loneliness

Answer 15

sapphos poems emphasise isolation of the individual… she shows us what it means to be excluded and alone

Question 16

stehle - mutual love

Answer 16

sappho does not picture love relations as domination by one partner of another … desire is mutual

Question 17

dubois - women in relations

Answer 17

sapphos shows women to be the active agents in relationships

Question 18

poochigan - sappho + passion

Answer 18

the sapphic poersona thrives on activity and passion

Question 19

hollis - power of love

Answer 19

Sappho prwsnts live as an overwhelming force

Question 20

poochigan - duality of love

Answer 20

sappho presents desire as simultaneously violent and tender

Question 21

whitton - roman role of mariah

Answer 21

marriage is a form of social glue

Question 22

finley - roman lower class women

Answer 22

freer in all senses less bound by marriage + ideals of sexual morality

Question 23

bishop - role of ars amatoria

Answer 23

the Ars Amatoria was purely for lust rather than love

Question 24

marshall- female readwrs

Answer 24

ovid isn’t ’trying terribly to keep the female readers onside’

Question 25

downing - books 3 ovid

Answer 25

book 3 is ‘ thinly discuss misogyny

Question 26

gloyn - male audience ovid

Answer 26

a good proportion of the advice seems design to benefit men

Question 27

green -ovid- view in relationships

Answer 27

ovids view of human relationship is nothing if not pragmatic

Question 28

Motto - love vs friendship - seneca

Answer 28

for seneca, true love is analogous of an ideal friendship

Question 29

gloyn - love - seneca

Answer 29

love in and of itself is neither good nor bad

Question 30

kreitner - sex - seneca

Answer 30

sex is the antithesis of reason

Question 31

motto - seneca and wife

Answer 31

the mutual love that existed between seneca and his wife was noteworthy

Question 32

tacitus (ancient) - hypocrisy - seneca

Answer 32

sene did “ everything most contrary about with he philosophied