Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece

Author:   Renaud Gagné (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   564
Publication Date:   07 November 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Renaud Gagné (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.950kg
ISBN:  

9781107039803


ISBN 10:   1107039800
Pages:   564
Publication Date:   07 November 2013
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The theology of progonikon hamartēma; 2. Haereditarium piaculum and inherited guilt; 3. The earliest record: exōleia in Homer and Hesiod; 4. Sympotic theologies: Alcaeus, Solon, and Theognis; 5. Tracking divine punishment in Herodotus; 6. Tragic reconfigurations: Labdacids; 7. Tragic reconfigurations: Atridae; Conclusion.

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A learned, wide-ranging, and original book. Everyone should read it who is interested in Greek ethics, or symposiastic poetry, or Greek political debates about pollution, or tragedy, or Herodotus, or Greek theology in the imperial period. Ruth Scodel, Bryn Mawr Classical Review


'A learned, wide-ranging, and original book. Everyone should read it who is interested in Greek ethics, or symposiastic poetry, or Greek political debates about pollution, or tragedy, or Herodotus, or Greek theology in the imperial period.' Ruth Scodel, Bryn Mawr Classical Review


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Renaud Gagné is a University Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. His main research interests are early Greek poetry and Greek religion. He is a co-editor of Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 2013) and Sacrifices humains. Perspectives croisées et représentations (2013).

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