Open AccessViolência na tragédia grega: infanticídios e parricídios
Author(s) -
Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
nuntius antiquus
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2179-7064
pISSN - 1983-3636
DOI - 10.17851/1983-3636.5..131-142
Subject(s) - affection , theme (computing) , mythology , object (grammar) , narrative , philosophy , order (exchange) , literature , psychoanalysis , humanities , art , psychology , epistemology , linguistics , computer science , finance , economics , operating system
This article deals with different manifestations of violence, including the distortions and mistakes that maternal or other kind of love can produce on the object of its affections. In order to reflect about this theme, we focus on some ancients sources, such as Plutarch’s Of the affection towards offspring, mythological narratives and excerpts of Greek tragedies. To understand some aspects of the dynamics of good and evil, we recur to the thought of the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur.