Justice of Zeus by Hugh Lloyd-Jones

Justice of Zeus by Hugh Lloyd-Jones

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Zusammenfassung

The author here considers, in its general character, the outlook of early Greek religion from the Homeric poems to the end of the fifth century, through and analysis of what he takes to be its central constituent, the concept of Dike. He sees the first and basic notion of Dike as the prerequisite of the later rational speculation to which it led.

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Justice of Zeus by Hugh Lloyd-Jones

"Lloyd-Jones here considers, in its general character, the outlook of early Greek religion from the Homeric poems to the end of the fifth century, through and analysis of what he takes to be its central constituent, the concept of Dike. The "justice of Zeus" turns out to be two things, the first basic, the second subsidiary: (1) something like natural law or "the divinely appointed order of the universe," an order not always or even usually open to human scrutiny, and (2) moral law, a concession to the insignificant creatures of a day that men are, whereby Zeus "punishes, late or soon, a man who has done injustice to another, either in his own person or in that of his descendants." Because Lloyd-Jones sees the first and basic notion of Dike as the prerequisite of the later rational speculation to which it led (smoothly and without violent discontinuities, as he claims), his book assumes the dimensions of Kulturgeschichte Griechenlands, and becomes the latest in a small but distinguished list of works with similarly broad scope..." From: Review The Justice of Zeus by Hugh Lloyd-Jones Review by: John Peradotto The Classical Journal Volume 70, Number 3 (Feb. - Mar., 1975) , pp. 61-68 Published by: The Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Sir Peter Hugh Jefferd Lloyd-Jones FBA (21 September 1922 - 5 October 2009) was a British classical scholar and Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford.
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ISBN 13 9780520046887
ISBN 10 0520046889
Titel Justice of Zeus
Autor Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Serie Sather Classical Lectures
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag University of California Press
Erscheinungsjahr 1983-12-28
Seitenanzahl 237
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