Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece

Informationen zum Autor Renaud Gagné is a University Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. His main research interests are early Greek poetry and Greek religion. He is a co-editor of Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 2013) and Sacrifices humains. Perspectives croisées et représentations (2013). Klappentext This book traces the trajectories of a key idea of ancient Greek culture through three thousand years of literature and reception. Zusammenfassung Ancestral fault was a central concept in ancient Greece and also figured prominently in the Western reception of Greek thought. Adopting an innovative! multidisciplinary approach! this book follows the idea's trajectories across three thousand years! shedding light on different texts and genres from Homer to Proclus. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The theology of progonikon hamart¿ma; 2. Haereditarium piaculum and inherited guilt; 3. The earliest record: ex¿leia in Homer and Hesiod; 4. Sympotic theologies: Alcaeus, Solon, and Theognis; 5. Tracking divine punishment in Herodotus; 6. Tragic reconfigurations: Labdacids; 7. Tragic reconfigurations: Atridae; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Renaud Gagne, Renaud Gagné
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.2016
• EAN: 9781316613542
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61354-2
• No. of pages: 568
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Christian life & practice, History of Religion, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Church history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, Biblical Studies & Exegesis