SOURCE: "Love in Terence's Eunuch: The Origins of Erotic Subjectivity," in American Journal of Philology, Vol. 107, No. 1, Spring, 1986, pp. 369-93.
In the essay below, Konstan analyzes the complex and contradictory views of love presented in The Eunuch, focusing particularly on the unresolved tension between love and commerce inherent in the situation of the courtesan Thais.
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