Hunting for Justice: The Cosmology of Dike in Aeschylus’s Oresteia

Author:   Kalliopi Nikolopoulou
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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Pages:   264
Publication Date:   01 March 2025
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Author:   Kalliopi Nikolopoulou
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9798855801286


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   01 March 2025
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Cosmos/Phusis, Dikē, Pragmata: An Introduction 2. Tragedy and the Seriousness of Culture: Aristotle and Walter Burkert 3. Like a Dog, or in Artemis's Night: Dikēin Agamemnon 4. Hermes of the Axis Mundi: Gē and Dikē inthe Choephoroi 5. Beyond Justice: Apollo's Youth and Athena's Dikēin the Eumenides Epilogue A Lying Shepherd and the Limits of Human Dikē Notes Works Cited Index

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"""Nikolopoulou's insightful work shows how we might still read the ancients productively. She looks to Aeschylus not as confirmation or precursor of our strongest commitments and most cherished values but shows how his tragedies can help us understand the limits of our politics, instrumental rationality, and progressive sense of history. That Aeschylus does so precisely through an account of justice that is constantly grounded in cosmological necessity proves instructive for recognizing the remnant of injustice that resides even in our best efforts of righting past wrongs. The scholarship is impressive and wide-ranging, the concerns never more relevant: this book tarries with the inherent violence of justice and the importance of nature’s capacity for regeneration in the face of an all-too-human hubris."" — Jason Winfree, coeditor of The Obsessions of Georges Bataille: Community and Communication"


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Kalliopi Nikolopoulou is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. She is the author of Tragically Speaking: On the Use and Abuse of Theory for Life.

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