LE3 .A278 2016

2016

Provencal, Vernon

Acadia University

Bachelor of Arts

Honours

Classics

History & Classics

This thesis aims to demonstrate the presence of Plato’s homoerotic doctrine of Love, as set out in the Symposium and Phaedrus, in the heteroerotic relationships of the ancient Greek novels, Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon and Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe. In Plato’s dialogues, Eros, the god of love and desire, is the guiding principal which leads male homoerotic lovers to Plato’s Idea of the Good. Plutarch’s Amatoriusis an adaptation of Plato’s doctrine of Love, which transfers Plato’s doctrine of homoerotic love to heteroerotic relationships and marriage. Plutarch’s Amatorius thus links Plato’s pederastic Eros to the heteroerotic Eros of the Greek novels. The presence in the ancient Greek novel of Plutarch’s adaptation of Plato’s homoerotic doctrine of Love to heteroerotic relationships shall be demonstrated through the analysis of four key passages of Leucippe and Clitophon and Daphnis and Chloe.

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