Stamatia Dova

Greek Heroes in and out of Hades

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 507g
• ISBN-13: 9780739144978
• ISBN-10: 0739144979
• Artikelnr.: 35348399

Autorenporträt

Stamatia Dova

Inhaltsangabe

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