Eros. Love-life in ancient Greece

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Gods and heroes filled with weaknesses fall in love and "suffer" just like mortals. People enslaved by primal passion, yet free to express and channel it as they wish. Devotees of beauty, of the "good," of the well-formed, they live, teach, learn, and love without breath, without interruption, in a unified context, in a complete and primarily qualitative "wholeness." Deeply troubled philosophers "seek" love, pleasure, true happiness... Isolated women, yet masters of the most fundamental microcosm, of marriage and family. Women free to offer their bodies in exchange or for payment within a strictly defined legal framework. Sacred prostitutes, courtesans, concubines, whores, local or foreign, more or less educated, more or less powerful, with clear and distinct roles actively participate in the social fabric. And above all, artists, sculptors, painters, vase painters "observe" and "record," capturing with their gaze and tools the intimate moments of the present and historical sources of the future...