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Wounded Heroes Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient GreekLiterature and Philosophy

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Vulnerability is not often associated with virtue. Yet to be vulnerable is central to human experience. In this book, McCoy examines ways in which Greek epic, tragedy, and philosophy have important insights to offer about the nature of human vulnerability and how human beings might better come to te...

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Main Author: Berzins McCoy, Marina (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2013
Subjects:
Classical texts
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
Classical history / classical civilisation
Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500
plato
suffering
wounds
virtue
tragedy
homer
vulnerability
sophocles
aristotle
greek philosophy
Achilles
Alcibiades
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Neoptolemus
Oedipus
Philoctetes
Socrates
Theseus
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