The Age of Grace : Charis in Early Greek Poetry

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Although ""grace"" in today's secular usage often connotes beauty or good manners, to the ancient Greeks it was both an aesthetic and a moral concept central to social order--a transformative power grounded in favor, thanks, repayment, delight, pleasure, and, above all, reci...

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Autor principal: MacLachlan, Bonnie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Literature and society.
Greek poetry.
Grace (Theology) in literature.
Grace (Aesthetics) in literature.
Charis (The Greek word)
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Haris (Le mot grec)
Litterature et societe > Grece.
Grâce (Theologie) dans la litterature.
Poesie grecque > Histoire et critique.
Literature and society > Greece.
Greek poetry > History and criticism.
Greece.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Although ""grace"" in today's secular usage often connotes beauty or good manners, to the ancient Greeks it was both an aesthetic and a moral concept central to social order--a transformative power grounded in favor, thanks, repayment, delight, pleasure, and, above all, reciprocity. Here Bonnie MacLachlan explores the Greek concept of grace, or charis, as depicted in poetic works from Homer to Aeschylus, to tap into the essential meaning behind the manifold uses of the term. She also relates it to other important concepts in the moral language of the eighth century \B.C.E. Examining epic, ly
Descripción Física:1 online resource (220 pages).
ISBN:9781400863358

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