Title The Age of Grace : Charis in Early Greek Poetry

Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (214 pages) Series Princeton Legacy Library Princeton legacy library. Summary 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, ly Notes English Print version record Subject Greek poetry -- History and criticism Grace (Aesthetics) in literature. Grace (Theology) in literature. Literature and society -- Greece Charis (The Greek word) HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece. Charis (The Greek word) Grace (Aesthetics) in literature Grace (Theology) in literature Greek poetry Literature and society Greece Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400863358 140086335X

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