Politics Through The Iliad And The Odyssey
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Politics Through The Iliad And The Odyssey
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Author : Andrea Catanzaro
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-14
Politics Through The Iliad And The Odyssey written by Andrea Catanzaro and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-14 with Political Science categories.
Facing censorship and being confined to the fringes of the political debate of his time, Thomas Hobbes turned his attention to translating Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey from Greek into English. Many have not considered enough the usefulness of these translations. In this book, Andrea Catanzaro analyses the political value of Hobbes’ translations of Homer’s works and exposes the existence of a link between the translations and the previous works of the Malmesbury philosopher. In doing so, he asks: • What new information concerning Hobbes' political and philosophical thought can be rendered from mere translation? • What new offerings can a man in his eighties at the time offer, having widely explained his political ideas in numerous famous essays and treatises? • What new elements can be deduced in a text that was well-known in England and where there were better versions than the ones produced by Hobbes? Andrea Catanzaro’s commentary and theoretical interpretation offers an incentive to study Hobbes lesser known works in the wider development of Western political philosophy and the history of political thought.
The Iliad As Politics
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Author : Dean Hammer
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2002-01-01
The Iliad As Politics written by Dean Hammer and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Political Science categories.
"In this first full-length treatment of the Iliad as a work of political thought, Hammer demonstrates how Homer's epic is also an ancient Greek discussion on political ethics. Hammer redefines political thought as the activity of addressing issues of collective identity and organization. Using this understanding of politics, he discusses how the characters in the Iliad, through their larger-than-life actions and interactions, embody community issues of authority, conflict, judgment, and the interrelationship between personal and collective identity. The characters' many quarrels, laments, reconciliations, and vows of loyalty and friendship all critically model the principles and controversies of underlying Greek political ethics of communal responsibility and relationship."--BOOK JACKET.
The Odyssey Of Political Theory
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Author : Patrick J. Deneen
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2003-04-14
The Odyssey Of Political Theory written by Patrick J. Deneen and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-14 with Political Science categories.
This path-breaking and eloquent analysis of The Odyssey, and the way it has been interpreted by political philosophers throughout the centuries, has dramatic implications for the current state of political thought. This important book offers readers original insights into The Odyssey and it provides a new understanding of the classic works of Plato, Rousseau, Vico, Horkheimer, and Adorno. Through his analysis Patrick J. Deneen requires readers to rethink the issues that are truly at the heart of our contemporary 'Culture Wars,' and he encourages us to reassess our assumptions about the Western canon's virtues or viciousness. Deneen's penetrating exploration of Odysseus's and our own enduring battles between the dual temptations of homecoming and exploration, patriotism and cosmopolitanism, and relativism and universality provides an original perspective on contentious debates at the center of modern political theory and philosophy.
Defining Politics
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Author : Andrew Mathey Gross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Defining Politics written by Andrew Mathey Gross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
The Iliad is a work of great literary complexity that contains profound insights and a wide-ranging account of the human condition. Some of the most important recent scholarly work on the poem has also emphasized the political dimension of Homer's account. In this dissertation, I aim to contribute to our understanding of the Iliad as a work of political thought. Focusing on books 1 through 9 of the Iliad, I will try to show how we can discover in it a consistent chronological or historical account, even though at many points that history is not presented in a linear way, in the poem itself. Through various references we are able to discern an historical account of the entire cosmic order. Homer focuses on the newly established Olympian gods and, therewith, their need to enforce the crucial separation between themselves and human beings: that is, between their own status as immortals, and our condition as mortals. Homer's history of the Trojan War, in turn, conveys crucial lessons about politics and the human condition. The dissertation traces the history of the war as it emerged from a private struggle and developed into a public war. That historical narrative arc allows Homer's readers to compare regimes that exhibit varying degrees of political phenomena. The dissertation shows that, as the Iliad's history of the Trojan War unfolds it clarifies how politics stands in relation to the other spheres of human existence - that Homer's poem provides us with a fundamental account of politics, of justice, of the promise and limits of human virtue, and of how the political and other aspects of existence serve to define one another. Further, the sphere of politics is shown to illuminate other, sometimes more pressing or more important, spheres of human existence - not least, those of family and friendship. Through considering these elements of Homer's poem, the dissertation brings to sight a number of vital discoveries about politics and the human situation.
Homer S Hero
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Author : Michelle M. Kundmueller
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2019-11-01
Homer S Hero written by Michelle M. Kundmueller and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-01 with Philosophy categories.
Draws on Plato to argue that Homer elevated private life as the locus of true friendship and the catalyst of the highest human excellence. Offering a new, Plato-inspired reading of the Iliad and the Odyssey, this book traces the divergent consequences of love of honor and love of one’s own private life for human excellence, justice, and politics. Analyzing Homer’s intricate character portraits, Michelle M. Kundmeuller concludes that the poet shows that the excellence or virtue to which humans incline depends on what they love most. Ajax’s character demonstrates that human beings who seek honor strive, perhaps above all, to display their courage in battle, while Agamemnon’s shows that the love of honor ultimately undermines the potential for moderation, destabilizing political order. In contrast to these portraits, the excellence that Homer links to the love of one’s own, such as by Odysseus and his wife, Penelope, fosters moderation and employs speech to resolve conflict. It is Odysseus, rather than Achilles, who is the pinnacle of heroic excellence. Homer’s portrait of humanity reveals the value of love of one’s own as the better, albeit still incomplete, precursor to a just political order. Kundmueller brings her reading of Homer to bear on contemporary tensions between private life and the pursuit of public honor, arguing that individual desires continue to shape human excellence and our prospects for justice. “A beautiful account of the Homeric hero, in all his complexity.” — Mary P. Nichols, author of Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom
Thomas Hobbes Translations Of Homer
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Author : Eric Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 2008-07-31
Thomas Hobbes Translations Of Homer written by Eric Nelson and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-31 with Philosophy categories.
This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, edited by Eric Nelson. Hobbes translated the Homeric poems into English verse during the course of the 1670s, when he was already well into his eighties. These texts constitute his most extensive single undertaking, as well as his last major work. Yet, despite the explosion of interest in Hobbes over the last fifty years, this is the first modern critical edition of the Homer translations. Nelson provides extensive annotation detailing Hobbes's interactions with the Greek text of the epics and with other early-modern editions and commentaries, as well a substantial scholarly introduction placing Hobbes's enterprise in the wider context of Restoration politics and poetics. Nelson also offers a detailed analysis of the translations themselves, identifying the numerous instances in which Hobbes rewrites the poems in order to bring them into alignment with his views on politics, rhetoric, aesthetics, and theology. Hobbes's Iliads and Odysses of Homer, Nelson suggests, should be regarded as a continuation of Leviathan by other means. This edition will be fascinating reading for anyone interested in early-modern political philosophy, literature, and classical studies.
Translations Of Homer Odyssey
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Author : Homer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Translations Of Homer Odyssey written by Homer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Poetry categories.
Eric Nelson presents a critical edition of the translation of Homer's 'Iliad' composed by the great 17th century philosopher and political theorist Thomas Hobbes. Nelson shows that these translations are not only of great literary interest but offer insights into Hobbes' own thoughts.
Divine Purpose And Heroic Response In Homer And Virgil
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Author : John Alvis
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1995
Divine Purpose And Heroic Response In Homer And Virgil written by John Alvis and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.
Taking a critical perspective more political than that usually adopted by classicists, John Alvis demonstrates in this study that the Iliad, Odyssey and Aeneid each present a distinct political teaching regarding human ends and the form of civil society most conducive to the realization of those ends. Referring to the mysterious 'plan of Zeus' announced in the opening lines of the Iliad but never explained, Alvis argues that both Homer's Zeus and Virgil's Jupiter guide their heroes to embody principles of natural justice that in turn found political constitutions. The Political Plan of Zeus represents the first comprehensive theory of the meaning of Zeus's providence in both Homeric poems, a new interpretation of the muse in Homer, and the first attempt to compare the Aeneid with Platonic-Aristotelian teaching on the nature of man and the problem of empire. This book will be of interest to upper-level undergraduates and scholars of politics, philosophy, and the classics.
Homer And The Tradition Of Political Philosophy
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Author : Peter J. Ahrensdorf
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-25
Homer And The Tradition Of Political Philosophy written by Peter J. Ahrensdorf and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-25 with Philosophy categories.
In this book, Peter Ahrensdorf explores an overlooked but crucial role that Homer played in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche concerning, notably, the relationship between politics, religion, and philosophy; and in their debates about human nature, morality, the proper education for human excellence, and the best way of life. By studying Homer in conjunction with these three political philosophers, Ahrensdorf demonstrates that Homer was himself a philosophical thinker and educator. He presents the full force of Plato's critique of Homer and the paramount significance of Plato's achievement in winning honor for philosophy. Ahrensdorf also makes possible an appreciation of the powerful concerns expressed by Machiavelli and Nietzsche regarding that achievement. By uncovering and bringing to life the rich philosophic conversation among these four foundational thinkers, Ahrensdorf shows that there are many ways of living a philosophic life. His book broadens and deepens our understanding of what a philosopher is.
The Iliad The Odyssey And The Epic Tradition
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Author : Charles Rowan Beye
language : en
Publisher: Peter Smith Publisher
Release Date : 1966
The Iliad The Odyssey And The Epic Tradition written by Charles Rowan Beye and has been published by Peter Smith Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Literary Criticism categories.
Research into the Homeric epics has considerable enlarged our understanding of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" and the cultures that produced them. The two poems have been studied from every point of view by specialists in a variety of disciplines. Out of this material, [the author has] attempted to draw information that is relevant to any critical understanding of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" as poetry. Therefore, [the author has] tried to give some account of the nature of oral poetry to help the reader formulate an aesthetic different from that which he would employ for literate poetry. Moreover, [the author has] discussed some of the common techniques of oral epic narration so that the reader may more easily notice when Homer is using these often routine devices for effects that are especially pertinent to his poem. -- From preface