By Richard Shenkman
ISBN-10: 0062098861
ISBN-13: 9780062098863
A funny tackle international heritage debunks the myths that encompass Cleopatra, Nero, Robin Hood, King Arthur, Joan of Arc, and different old icons.
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The madness of Eteocles is present within him, but that does not prevent it also appearing as extraneous-and exterior to him. It is identified with the malignant power of defilement that, once engendered by ancient crimes, is transmitted from one generation to the next right down the Labdacid line. The destructive frenzy that grips the leader ofThebes is none other than the miasma that is never purified-, the Eriny'es of the race, now lodged within him as a result of the ara· or curse that Oedipus lays uEQIl-his sons.
There is no distinction between the intentfonal and the premeditated; hekon has b~th meanings. 25 As for ak5n, as Louis Gernet pointed out, it associates all kinds of ideas that, from the point of view of psychology, should be carefully distinguished right from the start. The single expression of phonos akousios, referr'hlg to the murder committed despite oneself, can mean now a total absence of guilt, now mere negligence, now a positive lack of prudence, now even a more or less fleeting impulse or the quite different case of homicide committed in legitimate self-defense.
The single expression of phonos akousios, referr'hlg to the murder committed despite oneself, can mean now a total absence of guilt, now mere negligence, now a positive lack of prudence, now even a more or less fleeting impulse or the quite different case of homicide committed in legitimate self-defense. ;:tive conditions that make an in~ividual the cause responsible for his actions. s norms for common thought. Now the law did not proceed on the basis 60 INTIMATIONS OF THE WILL IN GREEK TRAGEDY of a psychological analysis of the varying degrees of the responsibility of the agent.
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