Homeric Morality

Author : N. Yamagata
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004329366
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homeric Morality written by N. Yamagata and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homeric Morality is an attempt to answer two questions: whether or not the Homeric gods are concerned with 'justice' in human society, and what mechanism controls the social behaviour of Homeric man. It shows that the gods distribute good and bad fortune to men not in response to their moral behaviour, bus as required by fate; men, however, believe that the gods are concerned with human morality, and subsequently their behaviour is restrained by their faith in the moral gods as well as by many other forces, social and emotional. This volume, taken as a whole, serves as a sustained critique of two influential works in the field, The Justice of Zeus by H. Lloyd- Jones and Merit and Responsibility by A.W.H. Adkins.

Author : Naoko Yamagata
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004098725
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homeric Morality written by Naoko Yamagata and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes both divine and human behaviour in Homer through exhaustive surveys of relevant terms and episodes. It is a critical response to A.W.H. Adkins' "Merit and Responsibility" and H. Lloyd- Jones' "The Justice of Zeus."

Author : Peter J. Ahrensdorf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009302590
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homer and the Tradition of Political Philosophy written by Peter J. Ahrensdorf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Peter Ahrensdorf explores an overlooked but crucial role that Homer played in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche concerning, notably, the relationship between politics, religion, and philosophy; and in their debates about human nature, morality, the proper education for human excellence, and the best way of life. By studying Homer in conjunction with these three political philosophers, Ahrensdorf demonstrates that Homer was himself a philosophical thinker and educator. He presents the full force of Plato's critique of Homer and the paramount significance of Plato's achievement in winning honor for philosophy. Ahrensdorf also makes possible an appreciation of the powerful concerns expressed by Machiavelli and Nietzsche regarding that achievement. By uncovering and bringing to life the rich philosophic conversation among these four foundational thinkers, Ahrensdorf shows that there are many ways of living a philosophic life. His book broadens and deepens our understanding of what a philosopher is.

Author : Irene J. F. de Jong
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415145299
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homer: The Homeric world written by Irene J. F. de Jong and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albert Augustus Trever
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Homer written by Albert Augustus Trever and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Graham Zanker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472084005
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heart of Achilles written by Graham Zanker and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the moral choices and values Homer offers in his Iliad

Author : Carl A. Rubino
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292767870
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Homer written by Carl A. Rubino and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Homeric scholarship is distinguished by a dazzling diversity of approaches. That diversity is brilliantly displayed in this volume, in which nine well-known classicists approach the Homeric poems from the various perspectives of archaeology, economic history, philosophy, literary criticism, linguistics, and Byzantine history. Several essays are primarily concerned with what the Homeric poems teach us about the past. Richard Hope Simpson, for example, reviews the controversy sparked by his and John F. Lazenby's 1970 argument that the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad accurately reflects the geography of Mycenean Greece. Using archaeology as just one of his starting points, Gregory Nagy reflects upon the death and funeral of Sarpedon as described in the Iliad. Our understanding of the word áté is enhanced by E. D. Francis, who closely examines its prehistory. Norman Austin's elegant and original discussion of tone in the Odyssey's Cyclops tale is animated by both psychoanalytic theory and his work with two practitioners of optometric visual training. Writing of Odysseus, James M. Redfield dubs that hero "the economic man" and links certain tensions in the Odyssey to the actual economic concerns of Greece in the late eighth century BC. Both Ann L. T. Bergren and Mabel L. Lang concern themselves with problems of narrative in the Homeric epics. Like Hope Simpson, C. J. Rowe updates a controversy—in this instance, the many objections raised to Arthur Adkins' influential 1960 study of moral values in Homer. Gareth Morgan provides a fascinating glimpse of the Homeric scholarship of another day by focusing on the work of the astonishing John Tzetzes in twelfth-century Byzantium.

Author : James Hastings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. B. Rutherford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199222094
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homer written by R. B. Rutherford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-05-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise yet detailed account of the state of criticism of the two great epics ascribed to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Author : Athanasios Efstathiou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110479796
Total Pages : 505 pages
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Download or read book Homeric Receptions Across Generic and Cultural Contexts written by Athanasios Efstathiou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collective volume provides a fresh perspective on Homeric reception through a methodologically focused, interdisciplinary investigation of the transformations of Homeric epic within varying generic and cultural contexts. It explores how various aspects of Homeric poetics appeal and can be mapped on to a diversity of contexts under different socio-historical, intellectual, literary and artistic conditions. The volume brings together internationally acclaimed scholars and acute young researchers in the fields of classics and reception studies, yielding insight into the varied strategies and ideological forces that define Homeric reception in literature, scholarship and the performing arts (theatre, film and music) and shape the ‘horizon of expectations’ of readers and audience. This collection also showcases that the wide-ranging ‘migration’ of Homeric material through time and across place holds significant cultural power, being instrumental in the construction of new cultural identities. The volume is of particular interest to scholars in the fields of classics, reception and cultural studies and the performing arts, as well as to readers fascinated by ancient literature and its cultural transformations.