L’ὕβρις chez Aristophane
The thirty-one occurrences of the word “hubris” or its derivatives in Aristophanes’s theatre can almost always be taken in the sense of “affront” or “excess”, in the context of persecution, violence or trials. Whether the opponent is human or divine hardly makes a dif...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Presses universitaires de Caen
2007-12-01
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| Series: | Kentron |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/kentron/1754 |
| Summary: | The thirty-one occurrences of the word “hubris” or its derivatives in Aristophanes’s theatre can almost always be taken in the sense of “affront” or “excess”, in the context of persecution, violence or trials. Whether the opponent is human or divine hardly makes a difference. The confrontations between the Aristophanic hero and the divine also come down to Polis alone and all amounts to Athens and its laws. |
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| ISSN: | 0765-0590 2264-1459 |