Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Greece
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Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Greece
From Homer to Aristotle
Zavaliy, Andrei G.
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
07/2021
258
Mole
Inglês
9783030476083
15 a 20 dias
500
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Preface.- Acknowledgments.- About the Author.- List of Abbreviations.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Discovering an Ancient Virtue.- Chapter 2. Archaic Greece: Courageous Hero in the Homeric epics.- Chapter 3. Military Valor in Post-Homeric Poetry.- Chapter 4. The Bold Challengers: Cowardice, Irony and Mockery.- Chapter 5. Courage in Real-life: The Historians' Approach.- Chapter 6. Courage and Cowardice in Plato's Dialogues.- Chapter 7. Aristotle's Revisionism: A Return to Homeric Roots.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: The Fate of Courage in the Modern World.- Index.
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Courageous Hero in the Homeric epics;Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Greece;Role of thumos in Homeric courage;Post-Homeric Poetry and Tragedy;Homeric military ethics;Spartan poet Tyrtaeus (7th century BCE);Classical dramatists, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides;Works of the comedian Aristophanes;Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon on Real Courage;Military conflicts in Ancient Greece;The Protagoras and the Republic;Views of Plato during his later years;Aristotle's Revisionism: a Return to the Homeric Roots
Preface.- Acknowledgments.- About the Author.- List of Abbreviations.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Discovering an Ancient Virtue.- Chapter 2. Archaic Greece: Courageous Hero in the Homeric epics.- Chapter 3. Military Valor in Post-Homeric Poetry.- Chapter 4. The Bold Challengers: Cowardice, Irony and Mockery.- Chapter 5. Courage in Real-life: The Historians' Approach.- Chapter 6. Courage and Cowardice in Plato's Dialogues.- Chapter 7. Aristotle's Revisionism: A Return to Homeric Roots.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: The Fate of Courage in the Modern World.- Index.
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Courageous Hero in the Homeric epics;Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Greece;Role of thumos in Homeric courage;Post-Homeric Poetry and Tragedy;Homeric military ethics;Spartan poet Tyrtaeus (7th century BCE);Classical dramatists, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides;Works of the comedian Aristophanes;Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon on Real Courage;Military conflicts in Ancient Greece;The Protagoras and the Republic;Views of Plato during his later years;Aristotle's Revisionism: a Return to the Homeric Roots
