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\nCopyright ◎1986 by Princeton University Press  \nPublished by Princeton University Press,41 William Street,Princeton,New Jersey 08540  \nIn the United Kingdom:Princeton University Press,99 Banbury Road,Oxford OX26JX  \nAll Rights Reserved  \nFirst Princeton paperback printing,1988First Princeton Classics printing,2023Cloth ISBN 9780691250625Paperback ISBN 9780691247939E-book ISBN9780691249247  \nThe Library of Congress has cataloged the first edition of thisbook as follows:  \nCarson,Anne,1950-Eros the bittersweet.  \n\"Published for the Center for Hellenic Studies.\"Bibliography:  \np.Includes indexes.  \n1.Eros(Greek god)2.Love.I.Center for Hellenic Studies(Washington,D.C.)Ⅱ.Title.  \nBL820.C65C371986880'.9'354   85-43371 ISBN 0-691-06681-7  \n(alk.paper)ISBN0-691-01449-3(pbk.)  \nPublication of this book has been aided by a grant fromThe Andrew W.Mellon Foundation  \nThis book has been composed in Linotron Sabon and Weiss  \nCover design by Michael Boland for thebolanddesignco.com  \nCover images:iStock  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nDESIGNED BY LAURY A.E GAN  \nContents  \nAbbreviationsviiPrefacexiBittersweet3Gone10Ruse12Tactics18The Reach26Finding the Edge30Logic at the Edge32Losing the Edge39Archilochos at the Edge46Alpbabetic Edge53What Does the Lover Want from Love?62Symbolon70A Novel Sense77Something Paradoxical83My Page Makes Love86Letters,Letters91Folded Meanings98Bellerophon Is Quite Wrong After All102  \nContents  \nRealist108Ice-pleasure111Now Then117Erotikos Logos123The Sidestep124Damage to the Living130Midas134Cicadas138Gardening for Fun and Profit141Something Serious Is Missing145Takeover147Read Me the Bit Again151Then Ends Where Now Begin154What a Difference a Wing Makes159What Is This Dialogue About?165Mythoplokos168Bibliograpby175Index of Passages Discussed183General Index186  \nAesch.  \nAg.  \nPV  \nSept.  \nSupp  \nAnac.  \nAnth.Pal.  \nAp.Rhod.  \nAr.  \nEccl.  \nNub.  \nRan.  \nArist.  \nDe An.  \nMetaph.A  \nPh.  \nPoet.  \nPol.  \nRh.  \nSens.  \n# Abbreviations\n\nAeschylusAgamemnonPrometheus BoundSeven against ThebesSuppliants  \nElegy and Iambus...with theAnacreontea,ed.J.M.Ed-monds(Cambridge,Mass.,1961)  \nThe Greek Anthology,ed.W.R.Paton,5 vols.(Londonand New York,1916)  \nApollonius Rhodius,Argonau-tica,ed.R.C.Seaton(Ox-ford,1900)  \nAristophanesEcclesiazusaeCloudsFrogsAristotleOn the SoulMetaphysics APhysicsPoeticsPoliticsRhetoricOn the Senses  \nAth.  \nCAF  \nDiels,VS.  \nEur.  \nHipp.  \nIA  \nSthen.  \nFGrH  \nHilgard,Gramm.Gr.  \nHom.  \nIL  \nOd.  \nLP  \nLSJ  \nPind.  \nPyth.  \nP¹.  \nAp.  \nPhdr.  \nPhlb.  \nSoph.  \nSymp.  \nAbbreviations  \nAthenaios,Deipnosophistae,ed.G.Kaibel,3 vols.(Leip-zig,1887-1890)  \nComicorum Atticorum Frag-menta,ed.T.Kock,3 vols.(Leipzig,1880-1888)  \nDie Fragmente der Vorsokra-tiker,ed.H.Diels,3 vols.(Berlin,1959-1960)  \nEuripidesHippolytus  \nIphigeneia at AulisSthenoboea  \nFragmenta Graecorum Histori-corum,ed.F.Jacoby,15 vols.(Berlin and Leiden,1923-1958)  \n.Grammatici Graeci,ed.A.Hil-gard,3 vols.(Leipzig,1901)  \n.  \nHomerIliadOdyssey  \nPoetarum Lesbiorum Frag-menta,ed.E.Lobel and  \nD.Page(Oxford,1955)  \nLiddell and Scott,Greek-Eng-lish Lexicon,9th ed.,rev.Jones(Oxford,1968)  \nPindarPythian OdesPlatoApologyPhaedrusPhilebusSophistSymposium  \nTheag  \nTht.  \nPMG  \nRadt  \nSnell-Maehler  \nSoph.  \nAnt.  \nOC  \nTrach.  \nStob.,Flor.  \nTGF  \nWest,IEG  \nAbbreviations  \nTheagesTheaetetus  \nPoetae Melici Graeci,ed.  \nD.Page(Oxford,1962)Tragicorum Graecorum Frag-menta IV:Sophocles,ed.S.Radt(Göttingen,1977)  \nPindari Carmina cum Fragmen-tis,ed.B.Snell and H.Maeh-ler,2 vols.(Leipzig,1971)  \nSophoklesAntigone  \nOedipus at ColonusTrachiniae  \nIoannis Stobaei Florilegium,ed.T.Gaisford,4 vols.(Oxford,1822)  \nTragicorum Graecorum Frag-menta,ed.A.Nauck,2nd ed.(Leipzig,1889)  \nlambi et Elegi Graeci,ed.M.L.West,2 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