Greek Tragedy and the Ethics of Revenge

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction
5. Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle 3
6. Ad honorem
7. Ioannis N. Perysinakis’ Intellectual Adventure 25
8. Part I: Homeric Ethics
9. The Friendships of Achilles and the Killing of Lykaon 31
10. Part II: Ethics in Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle
11. An Odd Episode in Platonic Interpretation: Changing the Law in Plato’s Laws 61
12. Aristotle on the Legal and Moral Aspects of Law 81
13. Natural Inclination to Ethics in Aristotle 101
14. Part III: Tragedy Ethics
15. Phaedra’s Fantasy Other: Phenomenology and the Enactive Mind in Euripides’ Hippolytus 117
16. Greek Tragedy and the Ethics of Revenge 129
17. Part IV: Oratorical Ethics
18. Lysias and his Clients: Money, Ethics and Politics 147
19. Moral and Social Values in the Speeches of Isaios 159
20. Part V: Ethical Particulars
21. Fear and Anxiety: The View from Ancient Greece 179
22. Part VI: Reception
23. Educational Travels and Epicurean Prokoptontes: Vergil’s Aeneas as an Epicurean Telemachus 193
24. I.N. Perysinakis’ List of Publications 205
25. List of Contributors 209
26. Index Locorum 213
27. Index Nominum 223
28. Index Rerum 227