Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy by Christopher Gill
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Description This is a major study of conceptions of selfhood and personality in three key areas of ancient Greek thought: epic, tragedy, and philosophy. It is an original contribution to the history of ideas about the self, and combines this with striking new interpretations of the ethics and psychology of Greek literature and philosophy. All Greek is translated.
Publisher Description
This is a major study of conceptions of selfhood and personality in Homer, Greek tragedy, and philosophy. The focus is on norms of personality in Greek psychology and ethics. The key thesis is that, to understand Greek thinking of this type, we need to counteract the subjective and individualistic aspects of our own thinking about the self. The book defines an 'objective-participant' conception of personality, symbolized by the idea of the person as aninterlocutor in a series of types of psychological and ethical dialogue. The book is both an original contribution to the history of ideas of personality and the self and also offerssustained analysis and new interpretations of a number of important topics in Greek philosophy and literature. These topics include: Homeric decision-making; the problematic hero in Homer's Iliad and Greek tragedy; monologues of self-division in Greek poetry; the tripartite division of the soul and ethical education in Plato's Republic; Aristotle's ideas about 'being yourself' and meeting the claims of others, and Greek philosophical thinking about what it means to be fully'human', or 'divine'. The book is shaped as a response to recent work in the philosophy of mind, ethics, and personhood, as well as in classical scholarship. Clear and non-technical, with all Greek translated, the bookbrings out the continuing importance of ancient Greek thinking for contemporary study of ideas of personality and selfhood.
Author Biography
Christopher Gill is Professor of Ancient Thought at the University of Exeter. His books include Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy: The Self in Dialogue (1996), which was awarded the Runciman prize in 1997; The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought (2006); and a number of edited volumes of essays. He is currently working on Naturalistic Psychology in Galen and Stoicism (2010).
Details ISBN 0198152329 ISBN-13 9780198152323 Title Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy Author Christopher Gill Format Paperback Year 1998 Pages 520 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:137024636; About Us
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