Love, Saltus begins, was absent in Eden, and he then traces how it was born and changed: in Babylon, in Solomon’s court, in the cult of Aphrodite, in Sappho and the age of Aspasia, in Plato’s Banquet, in Rome and the passion of Antony and Cleopatra, and on through the feudal age and chivalry to modern times.
A highly mannered, epigrammatic essay by a leading American decadent stylist. Download the free EPUB.