TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berzins McCoy, Marina
AB  - 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 terms with their own vulnerability. While studies of Greek heroism and virtue often focus on strength of character, prowess in war, or the achievement of honor for oneself or one’s society, McCoy examines another side to Greek thought that extols the recognition and proper acceptance of vulnerability. McCoy begins with the literary works of Homer’s Iliad, Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Philoctetes before expanding her analysis to philosophical works. There, she analyzes imagery of wounding in Plato’s Gorgias and Symposium as well as Aristotle’s work on the vulnerability inherent in friendship and an innovative interpretation of tragic catharsis in the Poetics. As much a work of philosophy as of classical textual analysis, McCoy’s work aims at a deeper understanding of the virtues of vulnerability for individuals and societies alike.
DO  - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199672783.001.0001
ID  - OAPEN ID: 455815
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030815961
KW  - plato
KW  - suffering
KW  - wounds
KW  - virtue
KW  - tragedy
KW  - homer
KW  - vulnerability
KW  - sophocles
KW  - aristotle
KW  - greek philosophy
KW  - Achilles
KW  - Alcibiades
KW  - Creative Commons
KW  - Neoptolemus
KW  - Oedipus
KW  - Philoctetes
KW  - Socrates
KW  - Theseus
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/ab71d9da-49ae-429b-afce-3932dbb0f63a/455815.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33835
PB  - Oxford University Press
PY  - 2013
SN  - 9780199672783
TI  - Wounded Heroes : Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient GreekLiterature and Philosophy
ER  - 
