LEADER 04759nam 22006375 450 001 9910420929203321 005 20200720110039.0 010 $a3-030-47606-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-47606-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000011354718 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6273673 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-47606-9 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011354718 100 $a20200720d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCourage and Cowardice in Ancient Greece $eFrom Homer to Aristotle /$fby Andrei G. Zavaliy 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a3-030-47605-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface -- 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. 330 $aThe 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 courage from the Archaic period to the middle of the 4th century BCE. A deeper understanding of the history of the debate on courage should help to shape the modern discussions as well, as it becomes obvious that many of the questions on courage and cowardice that are still raised by the contemporary authors from different fields, have been thoroughly considered during the early stages of Greek culture. The book seeks to undermine a common stereotype of a single, unified view on courage and cowardice in Ancient Greece and shows that the current debates on what constitutes genuine courageous character can be traced to the various direct and indirect discussions on this subject matter by the ancient authorities. 606 $aPhilosophy 606 $aPoetry 606 $aEthics 606 $aPhilosophy, Ancient 606 $aClassical literature 606 $aHistory of Philosophy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E15000 606 $aPoetry and Poetics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/824000 606 $aEthics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E14000 606 $aClassical Philosophy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E12000 606 $aClassical and Antique Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/816000 615 0$aPhilosophy. 615 0$aPoetry. 615 0$aEthics. 615 0$aPhilosophy, Ancient. 615 0$aClassical literature. 615 14$aHistory of Philosophy. 615 24$aPoetry and Poetics. 615 24$aEthics. 615 24$aClassical Philosophy. 615 24$aClassical and Antique Literature. 676 $a179.6 700 $aZavaliy$b Andrei G$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0926053 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910420929203321 996 $aCourage and Cowardice in Ancient Greece$92079120 997 $aUNINA