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In English
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Beschreibung:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle -- Ioannis N. Perysinakis’ Intellectual Adventure -- The Friendships of Achilles and the Killing of Lykaon -- An Odd Episode in Platonic Interpretation: Changing the Law in Plato’s Laws -- Aristotle on the Legal and Moral Aspects of Law -- Natural Inclination to Ethics in Aristotle -- Phaedra’s Fantasy Other: Phenomenology and the Enactive Mind in Euripides’ Hippolytus -- Greek Tragedy and the Ethics of Revenge -- Lysias and his Clients: Money, Ethics and Politics -- Moral and Social Values in the Speeches of Isaios -- Fear and Anxiety: The View from Ancient Greece -- Educational Travels and Epicurean Prokoptontes: Vergil’s Aeneas as an Epicurean Telemachus -- I.N. Perysinakis’ List of Publications -- List of Contributors -- Index Locorum -- Index Nominum -- Index Rerum
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