Greek Heroes in and Out of Hades

Informationen zum Autor By 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 ForewordPrefacePart I: Odysseus and the Poetics of katábasisOdysseus among the ShadesWhat a Pity he is not a Hero!Agamemnon's katapontismósAn Epic Encore on the Problematik of kléosWho is µa???tat?? in the OdysseyOn Ruling over the Dead and Other ImpossibilitiesRethinking makarismós in and out of HadesAias and the End of kléosLiving Once and Dying Twice: Circe as an Agent of nóstosOn Death, Rebirth, and a Mother in HadesPart II: Hades (and Heroism) RevisitedA Terror to Behold: Heracles in the NékyiaHeracles Between Life and DeathVariations on a Duel Theme: Bacchylides 5 and Iliad 6On Wrath and the MotherOn Wrath and the GoddessHow to Praise a TyrantAn Example Gone AwryLooking for Death in the Right PlacesOn Foreknowledge of Death and its BlessingsOn cháris, apáte, and Other NecessitiesKeeping Achilles Alive: Tenes and the Liminality of TenedosPart III: Achilles, Alcestis, and the Poetics of non-katábasisOn Ruling over the Dead in Plato's RepublicAchilles in Plato's SymposiumPhaedrus and the Heroization of AlcestisOn Love, Glory, and Love of GloryLooking for Love in the Wrong PlacesAdmetus and the Poetics of philopsychíaTo Love is to Die forAlcestis' Virtual katábasisHeracles and the Deconstruction of Alcestis' DeathSelected Bibliography

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• Authors: Dova, Stamatia Dova, Stamatia G Dova, Stamatia G. Dova
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2012
• EAN: 9780739144978
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-4497-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplina; Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; Greek Studies: Interdisciplina
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; 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, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500