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The Flower of Suffering - Theology, Justice, and the Cosmos in Aeschylus' >Oresteia< and Presocratic Thought (Hardcover)
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The Flower of Suffering - Theology, Justice, and the Cosmos in Aeschylus' >Oresteia< and Presocratic Thought (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
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Greek tragedy occupies a prominent place in the development of
early Greek thought. However, even within the partial renaissance
of debates about tragedy's roots in the popular thought of archaic
Greece, its potential connection to the early philosophical
tradition remains, with few exceptions, at the periphery of current
interest. This book aims to show that our understanding of
Aeschylus' Oresteia is enhanced by seeing that the trilogy's
treatment of Zeus and Justice (Dike) shares certain concepts,
assumptions, categories of thought, and forms of expression with
the surviving fragments and doxography of certain Presocratic
thinkers (especially Anaximander, Xenophanes, Heraclitus, and
Parmenides). By examining several aspects of the tragic trilogy in
relation to Presocratic debates about theology and cosmic justice,
it shows how such scrutiny may affect our understanding of the
theological 'tension' and metaphysical assumptions underpinning the
Oresteia's dramatic narrative. Ultimately, it argues that Aeschylus
bestows on the experience of human suffering, as it is given in the
contradictory multiplicity of the world, the status of a profound
form of knowledge: a meeting point between the human and divine
spheres.
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