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Love and Transformation | Selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Americaâs favorite sex therapist, analyzes ancient myth and its relevance to 21st century relationships in her new book âMyths of Love: Echoes of Greek and Roman Mythology in the Modern Romantic Imagination.â From humanityâs earliest beginnings, people have puzzled over the dual nature of love. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, love was sweet, but it was also irrational, cruel, and often deadly. Faced with the terrible paradox of love, classical civilization produced some of the most psychologically insightful myths of all timeâstories of classic archetypes such as Narcissus, Helen of Troy, and Venus and Adonis.
Dr. Ruth and classical scholar Jerome E. Singerman insightfully examine the underlying psychology of the ancient myths and explain why their universal appeal has shaped the imagination of Western civilization for millennia. âMyths of Loveâ traces how these myths of endured in literature and art across the centuries and how they still influence how we think about sex and relationships today.
Surveying a vast range of Greek and Roman literature from Homer to Ovid, âMyths of Loveâ retells and reconsiders the full gamut of human sexual experience, from the tenderest expressions of married love to the savage, self-destructive passions of narcissism on jealousy. Bridging high culture and pop culture, âMyths of Loveâ reveals the secret connections between classic literature and todayâs popular novels and films.
A stimulating blend of art, science, ancient religion, and the passions and contradictions of the human heart, âMyths of Loveâ is a smart and sexy revisit to the roots of Western cultureâs eternal fascination with love.
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