Greek Heroes in and Out of Hades

Informationen zum Autor Stamatia Dova Klappentext Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. Through systematic readings of a wide range of ancient Greek texts, Stamatia Dova offers innovative hermeneutic approaches to heroic character and a comprehensive overview of the theme of descent to the underworld in the Iliad and the Odyssey, Bacchylides 5, Plato's Symposium, and Euripides' Alcestis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Preface Part I: Odysseus and the Poetics of katábasis Odysseus among the Shades What a Pity he is not a Hero! Agamemnon's katapontismós An Epic Encore on the Problematik of kléos Who is µa???tat?? in the Odyssey On Ruling over the Dead and Other Impossibilities Rethinking makarismós in and out of Hades Aias and the End of kléos Living Once and Dying Twice: Circe as an Agent of nóstos On Death, Rebirth, and a Mother in Hades Part II: Hades (and Heroism) Revisited A Terror to Behold: Heracles in the Nékyia Heracles Between Life and Death Variations on a Duel Theme: Bacchylides 5 and Iliad 6 On Wrath and the Mother On Wrath and the Goddess How to Praise a Tyrant An Example Gone Awry Looking for Death in the Right Places On Foreknowledge of Death and its Blessings On cháris, apáte, and Other Necessities Keeping Achilles Alive: Tenes and the Liminality of Tenedos Part III: Achilles, Alcestis, and the Poetics of non-katábasis On Ruling over the Dead in Plato's Republic Achilles i

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• Authors: Dova, Stamatia G Dova, Stamatia Dova, Stamatia G. Dova
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 15.07.2012
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works
• EAN: 9780739144978
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-4497-8
• Pages: 256
• Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplina; Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; Greek Studies: Interdisciplina
• Subjects: Classics, Literary Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, World Literature, Classical Philosophy, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500