Author: De Petris, AlfonsoTitle: Prometeo, un mito.
Characteristics: cm. 17 × 24, 148 pp.
Year: 2003 Price €: 17,00 ISBN: 978 88 222 5197 8
Series: Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere «La Colombaria» - Serie Studi, vol. 209 Subseries:
Abstract: Prometheus and Promethean man, symbols of human condition. Significance of myth in the history of ideas and in Western cultural consciousness. The Titan as a prototype of a self-determining and fulfilled mankind. Textual analysis of the interpretations. The contribution of Politics in Plato. Transformations in: logos (Isocrates, rhetors), magnus vir et sapiens (Cicero, Middle Ages). Boccaccio’s duplex Prometheus (vir doctus, sapiens). Lucian’s representation testifying an advanced «intellectualization» and different «human attitude toward religion».
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