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Is there a difference between the Greek and Roman perspectives on love?
That's only the double baconator. It's for sissies. Three beef patties is the least necessary to make a manly sandwich.
Make the Iliad and Aeneid your secondary sources. Compare the loves of Helen for Paris:
"So, home from the wars!
Oh would to god you'd died there, brought down
by that great soldier, my husband long ago.
And how you used to boast, year in, year out
that you were the better man than fighting Menelaus
in power, arm and spear! So why not go back now,
hurl your challenge at Menelaus dear to Ares,
fight it out together, man-to-man again?
Wait,
take my advice and call a halt right here:
no more battling with fiery-haired Menelaus,
pitting strength against strength in single combat--
madness. He just might impale you on his spear!"
(Iliad III.499-510)
(Which was write after Aphrodite told Helen she was going to make her life hell if she didn't shut up and do as she was told)
With Aeneas and Dido
"But now Venus is mulling over some new schemes,
new intrigues. Altered in face and figure, Cupid
would go in place of the captivating Acanius,
using his gifts to fire the queen to madness,
weaving a lover's ardor through her bones."
(Aeneid I.782-786)
"But once he's embraced Aeneas, clung to his neck
to sate the deep love of his father, deluded father,
Cupid makes for the queen. Her gaze, her whole heart
is riveted on him now, and times she even warms him
snugly in her breast, for how can she know, poor Dido,
what a mighty god is sinking into her, to her grief?
But he, recalling the wishes of his mother Venus,
blots out the memory of Sychaeus bit by bit,
trying to seize with a fresh, living love
a heart at rest for long--long numb to passion."
(I.854-863)
Or you could appeal to some of the stuff Cicero wrote on friendship, or Homer's Odyssey, with Odysseus and Circe and Calypso.
You could probably argue the question either way.
*Rod Serling voice*
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