This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their representation of the cardinal virtue sophrosune positions these texts in their literary, philosophical and cultural contexts. Sophrosune encompasses the disposition…
This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their representation of the cardinal virtue sophrosune positions these texts in their literary, philosophical and cultural contexts. Sophrosune encompasses the disposition…
Introduction -- Chapter One: Characterized Sophrosune -- Chapter Two: Readerly Sophrosune: Reader as Voyeur -- Chapter Three: Readerly Sophrosune: Eros and Sophrosune -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. "This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics…
This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their representation of the cardinal virtue sophrosune positions these texts in their literary, philosophical and cultural contexts. Sophrosune encompasses the disposition…
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Tragedy: Euripides -- Xenophon -- Plato -- Aristotle -- The Stoics -- Plutarch (Middle Platonists) -- Greek texts from the Imperial period -- Christiani…
"This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their representation of the cardinal virtue sophrosune positions these texts in their literary, philosophical and cultural contexts. Sophrosune encompasses the dispositio…
"This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their representation of the cardinal virtue sophrosune positions these texts in their literary, philosophical and cultural contexts. Sophrosune encompasses the dispositio…