Description |
xii, 254 pages ; 24 cm |
Series |
Sather classical lectures ; v. 57 |
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Sather classical lectures ; v. 57
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Contents |
I. The Liberation of Antiquity -- II. Centres of Agency -- III. Recognising Responsibility -- IV. Shame and Autonomy -- V. Necessary Identities -- VI. Possibility, Freedom, and Power -- Endnote 1: Mechanisms of Shame and Guilt -- Endnote 2: Phaedra's Distinction: Euripides Hippolytus 380-87 -- Index Locorum |
Summary |
The author is a philosopher, but much of his book is directed to writers such as Homer and the tragedians, whom he discusses as poets and not just materials for philosophy. At the center of his study is the question of how we can understand Greek tragedy at all, when its world is so far from ours |
Analysis |
Greek poetry History |
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Greek poetry History |
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Greek poetry - History and criticism |
Notes |
"A Centennial book"--P. facing t.p |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index |
Notes |
Sather classical lectures no:57 0080-6684 |
Subject |
Ethics in literature.
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Greek poetry -- History and criticism.
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Necessity (Philosophy) in literature.
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Philosophy, Ancient, in literature.
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Shame in literature.
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LC no. |
92002212 |
ISBN |
0520080467 (alk. paper) |
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0520088301 (paperback) |
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