The Age of Grace: Charis in Early Greek Poetry

by: MacLachlan, B.

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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,

Subjects:
Charis (The Greek word)
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Grace (Aesthetics) in literature
Grace (Theology) in literature
Grâce (Théologie) dans la littérature
Greece
Greek poetry
Greek poetry History and criticism
HISTORY Ancient Greece
Haris (Le mot grec)
Literature and society
Literature and society Greece
Littérature et société Grèce
Poésie grecque Histoire et critique

The Age of Grace: Charis in Early Greek Poetry

by: MacLachlan, B.

• ISBN-13: 9780691069746 / 978-0-691-06974-6
• ISBN-03: 0691069743 / 0-691-06974-3
• Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1993

Price: 31,69 EURO

1 copy in stock