Happily Ever After by Edward H. Carpenter

For this is the motive running through the whole of Greek life, till that life was transmuted by the influence of But those whoĭo accept it cannot fail to observe, on further consideration, how thoroughly suitable a motive of this kind would be in a national

This solution is astoundingly simple, and yet it took me so long to bring myself to accept it that I am quite ready to forgive any one who feels a similar hesitation. 'It is a story of which the main motive is the love of Achilles for Patroclus. Benecke in his Position of Women in Greek Poetry (p. It is not always realized that the Iliad of Homer turns upon the motive of friendship, but the extracts immediately following will perhaps make thisĬlear. To Roman poetry of the time of the Caesars. Whole characterized Greek feeling on this subject, at any rate during the best period of Hellenic culture. Originals, but the few specimens given may help to illustrate the depth and tenderness as well as the temperance and sobriety which on the No translations of course can do justice to the beauty of the To dedicate the main portion of the following section to quotations from them. THE fact, already mentioned, that the romance of love among the Greeks was chiefly felt towards male friends, naturally led to their poetryīeing largely inspired by friendship and Greek literature contains such a great number of poems of this sort, that I have thought it worth while Chapter 3 - POETRY OF FRIENDSHIP AMONG THE GREEKS AND ROMANS | Comment and Feedbackįorward to Chapter 4 - Friendship in Early Christian and Mediaeval Times

Happily Ever After by Edward H. Carpenter