LEADER 04066nam 22006612 450 001 9910462050103321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-139-54034-3 010 $a1-107-23204-X 010 $a1-139-17588-2 010 $a1-283-52219-5 010 $a1-139-52755-X 010 $a9786613834645 010 $a1-139-52635-9 010 $a1-139-53221-9 010 $a1-139-53102-6 010 $a1-139-52874-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000231654 035 $a(EBL)977208 035 $a(OCoLC)804664901 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000695325 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11421553 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000695325 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10675190 035 $a(PQKB)10253856 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139175883 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC977208 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL977208 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10583289 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL383464 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000231654 100 $a20111014d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDoubt and skepticism in antiquity and the Renaissance /$fMichelle Zerba$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 260 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-02465-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart 1: "Farewell the tranquil mind" : tragic doubt in Homer's Iliad, Sophocles' Philoctetes, and Shakespeare's Othello. Achilles' doubt and heroism-at-one-remove in Homer's Iliad ; Moral doubt and the claims of pity in Sophocles' Philoctetes ; "Do as if for surety" : doubt and delusions of certainty in Shakespeare's Othello -- Part 2: Comic skepticism and polytropic strategies in Homer's Odyssey, Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria, and Shakespeare's As you like it. Wandering Odysseus, Pyrrhonist Penelope, and the return from alienation ; Skeptical inversions of gender and genre in Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria and Shakespeare's As you like it -- Part 3: Skepticism, politics, and rhetoric in the works of Cicero, Machiavelli, and Montaigne. Skeptical constructions of identity in Roman and Renaissance humanism : the useful, the sublime, and the primitivist ; Academic skepticism and Cicero's Republican politics ; A Ciceronian Machiavelli ; Montaigne's Pyrrhonist politics. 330 $aThis book is an interdisciplinary study of the forms and uses of doubt in works by Homer, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Cicero, Machiavelli, Shakespeare and Montaigne. Based on close analysis of literary and philosophical texts by these important authors, Michelle Zerba argues that doubt is a defining experience in antiquity and the Renaissance, one that constantly challenges the limits of thought and representation. The wide-ranging discussion considers issues that run the gamut from tragic loss to comic bombast, from psychological collapse to skeptical dexterity and from solitary reflection to political improvisation in civic contexts and puts Greek and Roman treatments of doubt into dialogue not only with sixteenth-century texts but with contemporary works as well. Using the past to engage questions of vital concern to our time, Zerba demonstrates that although doubt sometimes has destructive consequences, it can also be conducive to tolerance, discovery and conversation across sociopolitical boundaries. 517 3 $aDoubt & Skepticism in Antiquity & the Renaissance 606 $aBelief and doubt$xHistory 606 $aSkepticism$xHistory 615 0$aBelief and doubt$xHistory. 615 0$aSkepticism$xHistory. 676 $a121/.509 700 $aZerba$b Michelle$f1953-$0548450 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462050103321 996 $aDoubt and skepticism in antiquity and the Renaissance$92491941 997 $aUNINA