Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece - Hardcover

Gagné, Renaud

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107039800 ISBN 13: 9781107039803

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: either the man's children, or his descendants thereafter', said Solon in the sixth century BC, a statement echoed throughout the rest of antiquity. This notion lies at the heart of ancient Greek thinking on theodicy, inheritance and privilege, the meaning of suffering, the links between wealth and morality, individual responsibility, the bonds that unite generations and the grand movements of history. From Homer to Proclus, it played a major role in some of the most critical and pressing reflections of Greek culture on divinity, society and knowledge. The burning modern preoccupation with collective responsibility across generations has a long, deep antecedent in classical Greek literature and its reception. This book retraces the trajectories of Greek ancestral fault and the varieties of its expression through the many genres and centuries where it is found.

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Review:

"A learned, wide-ranging, and original book. Everyone should read it who is interested in Greek ethics, or symposiastic poetry, or Greek political debates about pollution, or tragedy, or Herodotus, or Greek theology in the imperial period."
Ruth Scodel, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107039800
• ISBN 13: 9781107039803
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 564