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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 78429127
TI  - Homer on the gods and human virtue : creating the foundations of classical civilization
PY  - 2014
SN  - 131616392X 1316166902 1316166236 1316165779 0521141559 1316166465 1316166686 1316167127 1139018086 9781316166239 9781316166680 9781139018081 9780521193887 0521193885 1322177457 1316164381
PB  - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
DB  - UniCat
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Civilization, Classical.
KW  - Classical civilization
KW  - Civilization, Ancient
KW  - Classicism
KW  - Greek influences.
KW  - Homer
KW  - Hóiméar
KW  - Hūmīrūs
KW  - Homeros
KW  - Gomer
KW  - Omir
KW  - Omer
KW  - Omero
KW  - Ho-ma
KW  - Homa
KW  - Homérosz
KW  - האמער
KW  - הומירוס
KW  - הומר
KW  - הומרוס
KW  - هومر
KW  - هوميروس
KW  - 荷马
KW  - Ὅμηρος
KW  - Гамэр
KW  - Hamėr
KW  - Омир
KW  - Homère
KW  - Homero
KW  - 호메로스
KW  - Homerosŭ
KW  - Homērs
KW  - Homeras
KW  - Хомер
KW  - ホメーロス
KW  - ホメロス
KW  - Гомер
KW  - Homeri
KW  - Hema
KW  - Pseudo-Homer
KW  - Pseudo Omero
KW  - Characters
KW  - Gods.
KW  - Heroic virtue in literature.
KW  - Heroes.
KW  - Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Homerus
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78429127
AB  - This book seeks to restore Homer to his rightful place among the principal figures in the history of political and moral philosophy. Through this fresh and provocative analysis of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Peter J. Ahrensdorf examines Homer's understanding of the best life, the nature of the divine, and the nature of human excellence. According to Ahrensdorf, Homer teaches that human greatness eclipses that of the gods, that the contemplative and compassionate singer ultimately surpasses the heroic warrior in grandeur, and that it is the courageously questioning Achilles, not the loyal Hector or even the wily Odysseus, who comes closest to the humane wisdom of Homer himself. Thanks to Homer, two of the distinctive features of Greek civilization are its extraordinary celebration of human excellence, as can be seen in Greek athletics, sculpture, and nudity, and its singular questioning of the divine, as can be seen in Greek philosophy.
ER  -