Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature

Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond

Edited by: Maria Liatsi

Volume 102 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699616

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Maria Liatsi, Aristotle-University-Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction
Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle Maria Liatsi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Ad honorem
Ioannis N. Perysinakis’ Intellectual Adventure Ariadne Gartziou-Tatti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Part I: Homeric Ethics
The Friendships of Achilles and the Killing of Lykaon Nick Fisher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Part II: Ethics in Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle
An Odd Episode in Platonic Interpretation: Changing the Law in Plato’s Laws Ryan Balot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Aristotle on the Legal and Moral Aspects of Law Christoph Horn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Natural Inclination to Ethics in Aristotle Maria Liatsi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Part III: Tragedy Ethics
Phaedra’s Fantasy Other: Phenomenology and the Enactive Mind in Euripides’ Hippolytus Douglas Cairns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Greek Tragedy and the Ethics of Revenge Patricia Elizabeth Easterling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Part IV: Oratorical Ethics
Lysias and his Clients: Money, Ethics and Politics Chris Carey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Moral and Social Values in the Speeches of Isaios Μike Edwards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Part V: Ethical Particulars
Fear and Anxiety: The View from Ancient Greece David Konstan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Part VI: Reception
Educational Travels and Epicurean Prokoptontes: Vergil’s Aeneas as an Epicurean Telemachus Michael Erler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
I.N. Perysinakis’ List of Publications Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Index Locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Index Nominum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Index Rerum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Greek and Roman literature, philosophers, philologists of modern European and American literatures
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 229
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 0
- Tables: 0
Keywords: aretê (virtue); agathos (good); nomos (law); pathê (emotions)

eBook

Published: August 24, 2020
ISBN: 9783110699616

Hardcover

Published: August 24, 2020
ISBN: 9783110699173