The Flower of Suffering : : Theology, Justice, and the Cosmos in Aeschylus’ ›Oresteia‹ and Presocratic Thought / / Nuria Scapin.
Greek tragedy occupies a prominent place in the development of early Greek thought. However, even within the partial renaissance of debates about tragedy’s roots in the popular thought of archaic Greece, its potential connection to the early philosophical tradition remains, with few exceptions, at t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XII, 264 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 0. Introduction
- Part I: Philosophical Theology in Presocratic Philosophy and the Oresteia
- 1. Explicit Theological Innovations: Xenophanes’ God
- 2. God and the Unity of Opposites: Heraclitus
- 3. Zeus Whoever He Is
- 4. Zeus as the Ultimate Principle behind Reality
- Part II: Cosmic Justice: between a Metaphysics of Harmony and a Metaphysics of Conflict
- 5. Cosmic Justice and the Metaphysics of Opposites: Anaximander, Heraclitus, and Parmenides
- 6. Dikê, Time, and Necessity in the Oresteia
- 7. Dikê as conflict in the Oresteia
- 8. Persuasive Dikê: from violence to kindness
- 9. A Cosmos of Opposites
- 10. Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index of Sources