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The Age of Grace: Charis Early Greek Poetry

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The Age of Grace: Charis Early Greek Poetry
The Age of Grace: Charis Early Greek Poetry

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The Age of Grace: Charis Early Greek Poetry

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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, lyric, erotic, epinician, and tragic poetry, and the cult of the Charites themselves, MacLachlan shows how
governed human relations of all sorts, from the battlefield to bed: Achilles sulks, and jeopardizes the Greek victory in the Trojan War, because there was no
in Agamemnon's gesture of reconciliation; the young Telemachus, filled with the gift of
, speaks persuasively before the assembly of Ithacans; young men and women in erotic poems shine with
when they are sexually mature. In shaping her definition of
as a mutually shared pleasure that breaks down the barriers of the self, MacLachlan seeks to elucidate many poetic passages that have long mystified the commentators.
Originally published in 1993.
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