Bitter-Sweet Eros

Modern classic, a poignant lyrical-philosophical essay, one of the 100 best popular science books of all time according to Modern Library, an indispensable book on the shelf of any philologist — and this is all "Bitter-Sweet Eros" by Ann Carson.

Debut work that almost instantly made Ann Carson one of the leading researchers of Antiquity is published in Russian for the first time!

The book is dedicated to the phenomena of love, lyricism, eroticism, and philosophy in Ancient Greek literature, and the pages of this book bring to life the lines of Sappho, Longus, Heliodorus, Aeschylus, Plato, and a host of great names of the past buried under layers of dust.

"Bitter-Sweet Eros" represents a large-scale reflection on the contradictory nature of romantic love, which is at once unhappy and one of the greatest pleasures we can experience.