Ethics in ancient Greek literature : aspects of ethical reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and beyond : studies in honour of Ioannis N. Perysinakis / edited by Maria Liatsi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Liatsi, Maria, editor.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 102.

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 102

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--Criticism, Textual.

Greek literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 229 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Interpretation of ancient Greek literature is often enough distorted by the preconceptions of modern times, especially on ancient morality. This is often equivalent to begging the question. If we think e.g. of aretê, which has different meanings in different contexts, we shall think in English (or in Modern Greek or in French or in German) and shall falsify the phenomena. If we are to understand the Greek concept e.g. of aretê we must study the nature of the situations in which it is applied. For it is an important fact in the study of Greek society that the Greeks used the one word (e.g. aretê) where we use different words. If we are to understand properly the texts, we have to view them in their historical and social context. Ancient Greek thought needs to be studied together with politics, ethics, and economic behaviour. Moreover, the best insights can be found in those who confine themselves to the terms of each ancient author's analysis. From this principle each of the contributions of the volume begins.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle

Ioannis N. Perysinakis’ Intellectual Adventure

The Friendships of Achilles and the Killing of Lykaon

An Odd Episode in Platonic Interpretation: Changing the Law in Plato’s Laws

Aristotle on the Legal and Moral Aspects of Law

Natural Inclination to Ethics in Aristotle

Phaedra’s Fantasy Other: Phenomenology and the Enactive Mind in Euripides’ Hippolytus

Greek Tragedy and the Ethics of Revenge

Lysias and his Clients: Money, Ethics and Politics

Moral and Social Values in the Speeches of Isaios

Fear and Anxiety: The View from Ancient Greece

Educational Travels and Epicurean Prokoptontes: Vergil’s Aeneas as an Epicurean Telemachus

I.N. Perysinakis’ List of Publications

List of Contributors

Index Locorum

Index Nominum

Index Rerum

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9783110699616

3110699613

OCLC:

1191864439