Ancient Greeks Had Names For Each Types Of Love

[Pluvious]

Published on Aug 29, 2017:

Many of our relationship problems stem from the emptiness of our vocabulary around our affectionate emotion. We have only the minimal word 'love'. Luckily, the Ancient Greeks had a more nuanced and complicated vocabulary that we can usefully borrow from.

(TIL from whence the word erotic originates)

[fierywoman]

1. How I wish I'd seen (or known) this 50 years ago.

[Alice11111]

2. Thx for post

[burrowowl]

3. Yes it is good to have a vocabulary!

I walked out of church and didn't return when on Holy Thursday they did not sing Ubi Caritas (google it lovely chant) and the only thing I agree with Paul on about is that faith and hope will pass away but charitas or love will remain forever!

[DetlefK]

4. Exploring emotions was an important part of ancient greek culture:

Their culture was shaped by theater and drama, by the reencactment of scenes and emotions.
And the greek philosophy was based on the notion that problems should be solved by thinking about them, not by experimental trial&error. Thinking is civilized, trial&error is barbaric.
(That's why the ancient greek philosophers didn't conduct scientific experiments. It would have been insulting to think that a philosopher needs trial&error to find an answer.)

The Ancient Greeks were hot-blooded, emotional, dramatic theorists. That's why they didn't get along with the Ancient Romans, who were rather logical, pragmatic and practical.

[Pluvious]

7. Most interesting, thanks for sharing !! n/t

[smirkymonkey]

5. I like this, but I would even go so far as to say that there are more

forms of love than only these three. I think it's very complicated and nuanced. For instance sexual and romantic love can be separated as can familial love and agape.

[Pluvious]

6. Yes, I was expecting to see more than three

But not as many names for snow as reported the Eskimos have lol