Talk:Eros (love)
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The article is completely wrong. The Freudian view of Eros is completely distorted from what the Hellenes were meaning. The comments of the user Skookum1 are right in some aspects however is wrong in 2 fundamental things
Γαμώ is the sexual act, regardless the sex, as eros is not applied only to homosexuals...έλεος!! It is truth that they are no sexual connotations...absolutely truth.
Removed the 'some scholars' clause as it's sloppy writing. Cite sources, otherwise they're opinion.
- Especially in classics. Although citing opinions but treating them as facts is popular, too. For what I'm weighing in about, I'd have to dig out cites, and it's still controversial in classics. And there are those classicists who can read the Symposium and still only indirectly discuss the overt predilections of those partaking at the "drinking party"; embarrassing stuff, and very politically incorrect nowadays (the Greek words pedagogy and pedophilia were complementary and often synonymous, as the core of the Greek education system was the partnership with older males that educated bright, handsome young boys/men .... well, I won't go on, as that's not the point so much as the way the Greek meanins of eros can be uncomfortable to deal with. As from what I remember in my stumbling studies of ancient Greek and various writings, the verb ero (written erow, with the w an omega) doesn't mean heterosexual love at all - which is simply gamo (a vulgarity in modern Greek) - but the magnetic love and bond between men, even otherwise straight men but often enough the love-bonding so famously celebrated of the Spartans and Thebans and various Athenian gentlemen. Something as "soft" and still macho as Aussie "matehood", perhaps, or the ways primos are in Latin culture. I'd have to find cites on this in order to put it in the article but I'm fielding it here for discussion, or maybe somebody might know their Greek material enough for a cite or two.Skookum1 08:09, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Eros in Hellenic thought. That actual Hellenic meaning of the word Eros had nothing to do with "erotic love." It had to do with Metis and Logos. There were no sexual connotations to that concept at all.
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I added the section on Eros and C.G. Jung as this artical is cited as being linked to psychology. I will work on expanding it as i have time. Cheers. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Suener (talk • contribs) 16:03, 9 April 2007 (UTC).
