The ideal of love on Lesbos, from Sappho and Alcaeus

Abstract

This article develops the idea of couple´s love in the horizon dreamlike in Lesbos, at the ends of 7th and early 6th B.C. Through the study of the poets Sappho and Alcaeus. In this it was sought how aristocratic ideas are connected to the agonism within its own social historic context, they participate in the conformation and elevation of “Love” to the field of emotions and yearnings, putting as a basis the dialectic between philía and éros. The subject is approach focusing bonded with the history of emotions and erotism, visualizing predominance of asymmetric relations, which could be found their legitimacy in the actions of divinities.