Greek love
Americannoun
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This feisty tale of ancient Greek love and war might even remind you of modern dating in New York.
From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2016
Down the road along the shoreline, the Bouzoukia clubs ring with live renditions of popular Greek love songs.
From BBC • Jan. 22, 2015
As an adult, the Bob Dylan fan wooed his wife, Ada, with Greek love songs in a late-night window serenade.
From BusinessWeek • Jun. 24, 2010
The greatest poet of the lyric age, the lyrist par excellence Pindar, adds much to our conception of Greek love at this period.
From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington
Goethe had an aperçu of the absence of purity in Greek love when he wrote, in his Roman Elegies: In der heroischen Zeit, da Götter und Göttinnen liebten.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus
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