Key words: Plutarch, Plutarch’s Eroticus, misogyny, gender studies, Greek philosophy, feminism, ethics and sexuality, masculine ethics

The aim of this article is to show, by means of an accurate philological analysis of Plautarch's Eroticus, how Western Ethics has been clearly sexualized. Indeed, the specific features of masculine bodies become the suitable ones to define what is really ethical, while the specific features of feminine bodies become in their turn the suitable ones to define what is by no means ethical.

Key words: Plutarch, Plutarch’s Eroticus, misogyny, gender studies, Greek philosophy, feminism, ethics and sexuality, masculine ethics

The aim of this article is to show, by means of an accurate philological analysis of Plautarch's Eroticus, how Western Ethics has been clearly sexualized. Indeed, the specific features of masculine bodies become the suitable ones to define what is really ethical, while the specific features of feminine bodies become in their turn the suitable ones to define what is by no means ethical.

Key words: Plutarch, Plutarch’s Eroticus, misogyny, gender studies, Greek philosophy, feminism, ethics and sexuality, masculine ethics

The aim of this article is to show, by means of an accurate philological analysis of Plautarch's Eroticus, how Western Ethics has been clearly sexualized. Indeed, the specific features of masculine bodies become the suitable ones to define what is really ethical, while the specific features of feminine bodies become in their turn the suitable ones to define what is by no means ethical.

Key words: Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, PLutarch, eros, classical tradition, Greek Literature, German Literature, homosexuality, German novel, gay studies, Greek philosophy

In Death in Venice Thomas Mann refers explicitly to Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus in order to explain the relationship between Gustav von Aschenbach and Tadzio but he hides that his novel also depends on Plutarch's Eroticus. Why? The aim of this article is precisely to reveal the different reasons for such an attitude. Indeed, Plutarch speaks highly of conjugal love in his Eroticus and this way is not followed by Mann in Death in Venice but, at the same, the German writer finds in this Plutarch's philosophical dialogue all the necessary elements to build his story of masculine love and decides not to manage without it.

Key words: Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, PLutarch, eros, classical tradition, Greek Literature, German Literature, homosexuality, German novel, gay studies, Greek philosophy

In Death in Venice Thomas Mann refers explicitly to Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus in order to explain the relationship between Gustav von Aschenbach and Tadzio but he hides that his novel also depends on Plutarch's Eroticus. Why? The aim of this article is precisely to reveal the different reasons for such an attitude. Indeed, Plutarch speaks highly of conjugal love in his Eroticus and this way is not followed by Mann in Death in Venice but, at the same, the German writer finds in this Plutarch's philosophical dialogue all the necessary elements to build his story of masculine love and decides not to manage without it.

Key words: Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, PLutarch, eros, classical tradition, Greek Literature, German Literature, homosexuality, German novel, gay studies, Greek philosophy

In Death in Venice Thomas Mann refers explicitly to Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus in order to explain the relationship between Gustav von Aschenbach and Tadzio but he hides that his novel also depends on Plutarch's Eroticus. Why? The aim of this article is precisely to reveal the different reasons for such an attitude. Indeed, Plutarch speaks highly of conjugal love in his Eroticus and this way is not followed by Mann in Death in Venice but, at the same, the German writer finds in this Plutarch's philosophical dialogue all the necessary elements to build his story of masculine love and decides not to manage without it.

Key words: Luis Cernuda, Plato, Presocratic philosophers, Heraclitus, Aristotle, classical tradition, Greek philosophy, Spanish poetry, Spanish Literature

The aim of this article is to show how, although the poet finds himself materialist or both Presocratic and Aristotelian, his poetic emotiveness is truly Platonic or idealist, so that that tension between reality and desire with the help of which his poetry has always been defined becomes once more confirmed thanks to the analysis of his poems from a philosophical rather than a literary point of view.

Key words: Luis Cernuda, Plato, Presocratic philosophers, Heraclitus, Aristotle, classical tradition, Greek philosophy, Spanish poetry, Spanish Literature

The aim of this article is to show how, although the poet finds himself materialist or both Presocratic and Aristotelian, his poetic emotiveness is truly Platonic or idealist, so that that tension between reality and desire with the help of which his poetry has always been defined becomes once more confirmed thanks to the analysis of his poems from a philosophical rather than a literary point of view.

Key words: Luis Cernuda, Plato, Presocratic philosophers, Heraclitus, Aristotle, classical tradition, Greek philosophy, Spanish poetry, Spanish Literature

The aim of this article is to show how, although the poet finds himself materialist or both Presocratic and Aristotelian, his poetic emotiveness is truly Platonic or idealist, so that that tension between reality and desire with the help of which his poetry has always been defined becomes once more confirmed thanks to the analysis of his poems from a philosophical rather than a literary point of view.

Key words: Plutarch, Plutarch’s Eroticus, Plato, Greek love, matrimony, gender studies, feminism, homosexuality

On the occasion of the symposium devoted to “Love in Plutarch”, this contribution was presented in order to prove to what extent Plutarch, above all in his Eroticus and from Platonic parameters, with the help of an elemental logic reasoning, Platonically corrects Plato so that eros and philia can finally be also attributed to conjugal love.

Key words: Plutarch, Plutarch’s Eroticus, Plato, Greek love, matrimony, gender studies, feminism, homosexuality

On the occasion of the symposium devoted to “Love in Plutarch”, this contribution was presented in order to prove to what extent Plutarch, above all in his Eroticus and from Platonic parameters, with the help of an elemental logic reasoning, Platonically corrects Plato so that eros and philia can finally be also attributed to conjugal love.

Key words: Plutarch, Plutarch’s Eroticus, Plato, Greek love, matrimony, gender studies, feminism, homosexuality

On the occasion of the symposium devoted to “Love in Plutarch”, this contribution was presented in order to prove to what extent Plutarch, above all in his Eroticus and from Platonic parameters, with the help of an elemental logic reasoning, Platonically corrects Plato so that eros and philia can finally be also attributed to conjugal love.    

Key words: Miguel Angel Riera, anti-platonism, classical tradition, Greek philosophy, Plato, Catalan Literature, Catalan Poetry

The aim of this article is to show how, throughout M. A. Riera's poetry, an evident anti-metaphysical sensibility can be easily detected, which in its turn makes the poet to praise concrete person's skin, flesh and bodies, thus avoiding any personal Platonic or idealistic experience of human love. In the author's opinion, an accurate reading of his poems makes us discover Plato and Platonism as one of the great responsible thinkers for the contempt of carnal love, which has been undoubtedly the origin of a real human pain as a result of denying the somatic side of eros.

Key words: Miguel Angel Riera, anti-platonism, classical tradition, Greek philosophy, Plato, Catalan Literature, Catalan Poetry

The aim of this article is to show how, throughout M. A. Riera's poetry, an evident anti-metaphysical sensibility can be easily detected, which in its turn makes the poet to praise concrete person's skin, flesh and bodies, thus avoiding any personal Platonic or idealistic experience of human love. In the author's opinion, an accurate reading of his poems makes us discover Plato and Platonism as one of the great responsible thinkers for the contempt of carnal love, which has been undoubtedly the origin of a real human pain as a result of denying the somatic side of eros.

Key words: Miguel Angel Riera, anti-platonism, classical tradition, Greek philosophy, Plato, Catalan Literature, Catalan Poetry

The aim of this article is to show how, throughout M. A. Riera's poetry, an evident anti-metaphysical sensibility can be easily detected, which in its turn makes the poet to praise concrete person's skin, flesh and bodies, thus avoiding any personal Platonic or idealistic experience of human love. In the author's opinion, an accurate reading of his poems makes us discover Plato and Platonism as one of the great responsible thinkers for the contempt of carnal love, which has been undoubtedly the origin of a real human pain as a result of denying the somatic side of eros.

Key words: E. M. Forster, James Ivory, Maurice, Platonic love, homosexuality, gay studies, classical tradition, Greek philosophy, Plato, Symposium, cinema

According to Literature and Film studies and from the point of view of the influence of Classical Tradition on Western Culture -Classical Greek Tradition, in this case-, this article is an accurate analysis of the inevitable -to a certain degree- screenwriters betrayals regarding the literary texts that they adapt. However, in spite of being practically inevitable, Dr. Pau Gilabert Barberà indicates which are in his opinion the limits beyond which Ivory/Hesketh-Harvey should have not gone in order not to dilute the Hellenic temper of E. M. Forster's Maurice.

Key words: E. M. Forster, James Ivory, Maurice, Platonic love, homosexuality, gay studies, classical tradition, Greek philosophy, Plato, Symposium, cinema

According to Literature and Film studies and from the point of view of the influence of Classical Tradition on Western Culture -Classical Greek Tradition, in this case-, this article is an accurate analysis of the inevitable -to a certain degree- screenwriters betrayals regarding the literary texts that they adapt. However, in spite of being practically inevitable, Dr. Pau Gilabert Barberà indicates which are in his opinion the limits beyond which Ivory/Hesketh-Harvey should have not gone in order not to dilute the Hellenic temper of E. M. Forster's Maurice.

Key words: E. M. Forster, James Ivory, Maurice, Platonic love, homosexuality, gay studies, classical tradition, Greek philosophy, Plato, Symposium, cinema

According to Literature and Film studies and from the point of view of the influence of Classical Tradition on Western Culture -Classical Greek Tradition, in this case-, this article is an accurate analysis of the inevitable -to a certain degree- screenwriters betrayals regarding the literary texts that they adapt. However, in spite of being practically inevitable, Dr. Pau Gilabert Barberà indicates which are in his opinion the limits beyond which Ivory/Hesketh-Harvey should have not gone in order not to dilute the Hellenic temper of E. M. Forster's Maurice.

Key words: Giovane Reale, Saggezza antica, Terapia per i mali dll’uomo d’oggi, La saviesa antiga. Tractament per als mals de l'home contemporani, filosofia grega, sociologia, ètica, metafísica, idealisme, tradició clàssica

L'objectiu d'aquest article és presentar una análisi crítica de l'assaig de Giovane Reale, Saggezza antica. Terapia per i mali dll'uomo d'oggi, complementant l'adhesió de l'autor italià al pensament grec més metafísic amb el recordatori de moltes més savieses gregues d'índole diferent que paga la pena de tenir en compte per aplicar, emprant les seves paraules, una teràpia correcta als mals de l'home contemporani.

Key words: Giovane Reale, Saggezza antica Terapia per i mali dll’uomo d’oggi, La sabiduría antigua. Tratamiento para los males del hombre contemporáneo, filosofía griega, sociología, ética, metafísica, idealismo, tradición clásica

El objetivo de esta artículo es presentar un análisis crítico del ensayo de Giovane Reale, Saggezza antica. Terapia per i mali dll'uomo d'oggi, complementando la adhesión del autor italiano al pensamiento griego más metafísico con el recordatorio de otras muchas sabidurías griegas de índole diferente que habría que tener en cuenta para aplicar, utilizando sus mismas palabras, una terapia correcta a los males del hombre contemporáneo.