书目名称 | Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Greece | 副标题 | From Homer to Aristo | 编辑 | Andrei G. Zavaliy | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/240/239167/239167.mp4 | 概述 | First book to offer a comprehensive study of the virtue of courage and its corresponding vice, cowardice.Uniquely combines the literary, historical and philosophical sources to present a complete pict | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .The book offers the first comprehensive account of the debate on true courage as it was raging in ancient Greece, from the times when the immensely influential Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, were composed, to the period of the equally influential author, Aristotle. The many voices that contribute to this debate include poets, authors of ancient dramas and comedies, historians, politicians and philosophers. The book traces the origin of the earliest ideal of a courageous hero in the epic poems of Homer (8th century BCE), and faithfully records its transformations in later authors, which range from an emphatic denial of the Homeric standards of courage (as in comedies of Aristophanes and some Dialogues of Plato) to the strong revisionist tendencies of Aristotle, who attempts to restore genuine courage to its traditional place as an exclusively martial, male virtue..Without attempting to cover the whole of the Western history, the book is able to explore the most important primary Greek sources on the subject matter in greater details, and provide the reader with a comprehensive picture of the changes in both popular and philosophical conceptualizations of the standards of | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | 关键词 | Courageous Hero in the Homeric epics; Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Greece; Role of thumos in Homer | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47606-9 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-47608-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-47606-9 | copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 |
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