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Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid - Stoic World Fate and Human Responsibility (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,696
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Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid - Stoic World Fate and Human Responsibility (Hardcover): Graham Zanker

Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid - Stoic World Fate and Human Responsibility (Hardcover)

Graham Zanker

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This book explores how Virgil in his Aeneid incorporates the ancient Stoics' thinking about how humans can exercise moral responsibility and how this can affect providential world fate. The third-century BC philosopher Chrysippus of Soli located this freedom in the way we can assent to courses of action, and Graham Zanker innovatively demonstrates how Virgil appropriates this concept in the way that Jupiter and Aeneas can assent to the world fate in which they have discovered they must play a part, or Juno and Dido can withhold their assent to it. Indeed, Virgil even offers the model to no-one less than Augustus: the emperor is invited to give his assent to ruling what was believed to be his 'world-wide' empire justly. The book is accessible to both students and professional scholars of the Aeneid, with all Greek and Latin translated into idiomatic English.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2023
Authors: Graham Zanker
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 978-1-00-931987-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
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LSN: 1-00-931987-6
Barcode: 9781009319874

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