| Description |
1 online resource (556 pages) |
| Contents |
1. theology of progonikon hamartema -- De decem dubitationibus circa Providentiam -- De sera numinis vindicta -- Confrontations and translations -- Isaak Sebastokrator -- William of Moerbeke -- 2. Haereditarium piaculum and inherited guilt -- Parentum peccata -- Domestications -- Grotius -- Lomeier -- scholarship of inherited guilt I -- scholarship of inherited guilt II -- 3. earliest record: exoleia in Homer and Hesiod -- Hesiod -- Homer -- 4. Sympotic theologies: Alcaeus, Solon, and Theognis -- Alcaeus -- Solon -- Theognidea -- 5. Tracking divine punishment in Herodotus -- oath of Glaukos -- wrath of Talthybios -- Enagees -- Croesus and Solon -- 6. Tragic reconfigurations: Labdacids -- Seven against Thebes -- Antigone -- Phoenissae -- Oedipus at Colonus -- 7. Tragic reconfigurations: Atridae -- Oresteia -- Iphigenia in Tauris -- Orestes -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: either the man's children, or his descendants thereafter', said Solon in the sixth century BC, a statement echoed throughout the rest of antiquity. This notion lies at the heart of ancient Greek thinking on theodicy, inheritance and privilege, the meaning of suffering, the links between wealth and morality, individual responsibility, the bonds that unite generations and the grand movements of history. From Homer to Proclus, it played a major role in some of the most critical and pressing reflections of Greek culture on divinity, society and knowledge. The burning modern preoccupation with collective responsibility across generations has a long, deep antecedent in classical Greek literature and its reception. This book retraces the trajectories of Greek ancestral fault and the varieties of its expression through the many genres and centuries where it is found |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Greek literature -- History and criticism
|
|
Mythology, Classical.
|
|
History, Ancient.
|
|
Heredity.
|
|
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
|
|
Greek literature
|
|
Heredity
|
|
History, Ancient
|
|
Mythology, Classical
|
|
Literatur
|
|
Schuld
|
|
Verantwortung
|
|
Erbsünde
|
|
Griechenland
|
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9781107417298 |
|
1107417295 |
|
9781139626606 |
|
1139626604 |
|
1139893033 |
|
9781139893039 |
|
1107422973 |
|
9781107422971 |
|
1316613542 |
|
9781316613542 |
|
1107419913 |
|
9781107419919 |
|
1107421128 |
|
9781107421127 |
|
1107418569 |
|
9781107418561 |
|
