The Love of a Good Man

This book, divided into four parts, uses the Ancient Greek taxonomy of love as its guiding principle: The first part, "Loving Men," ventures into the realms of ἀγάπη (brotherly love), φιλία (friendship), ξενία (guest-friendship), and στοργή (familial affection). The second part, "Loving a Man," is devoted to ἔρως (intimate love) and contains the poems for which the author's self-severing lover serves as a muse. The third part, "Loving Me," is firmly entrenched in the domain of φιλαυτία (sel...