The Age of Grace : Charis in Early Greek Poetry.

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Author / Creator:MacLachlan, Bonnie.
Imprint:Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Description:1 online resource (214 pages)
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11275423
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ISBN:9781400863358
140086335X
Notes:English.
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Summary:Although ""grace"" in today's secular usage often connotes beauty or good manners, to the ancient Greeks it was both an aesthetic and a moral concept central to social order--a transformative power grounded in favor, thanks, repayment, delight, pleasure, and, above all, reciprocity. Here Bonnie MacLachlan explores the Greek concept of grace, or charis, as depicted in poetic works from Homer to Aeschylus, to tap into the essential meaning behind the manifold uses of the term. She also relates it to other important concepts in the moral language of the eighth century \B.C.E. Examining epic, ly.
Other form:Print version: MacLachlan, Bonnie. Age of Grace : Charis in Early Greek Poetry. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014