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Divine Purpose and Heroic Response in Homer and Virgil
by John Alvis
Binding: Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
List Price: USD $36.95
Weight: 95
Dimension: H: 0.6 x L: 8.9 x W: 5.8 inches
ISBN 10: 0847680150
ISBN 13: 9780847680153
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Taking a critical perspective more political than that usually adopted by classicists, John Alvis demonstrates in this study that the 'Iliad, Odyssey' and 'Aeneid' each present a distinct political teaching regarding human ends and the form of civil society most conducive to the realization of those ends. Referring to the mysterious 'plan of Zeus' announced in the opening lines of the 'Iliad' but never explained, Alvis argues that both Homer's Zeus and Virgil's Jupiter guide their heroes to embody principles of natural justice that in turn found political constitutions. 'The Political Plan of Zeus' represents the first comprehensive theory of the meaning of Zeus's providence in both Homeric poems, a new interpretation of 'the muse' in Homer, and the first attempt to compare the 'Aeneid' with Platonic Aristotelian teaching on the nature of man and the problem of empire. This book will be of interest to upper level undergraduates and scholars of politics, philosophy, and the classics.

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