Schicksal und Entscheidungsfreiheit bei Quintus Smyrnaeus
- In the Posthomerica references to an omnipotent fate or to the power of the gods are strikingly frequent. Modern scholarship has often treated this as Stoic. Closer reading reveals that Quintus is, on the one hand, following the Homeric concept of double motivation, according to which humans can be motivated by a deity only to an act that conforms to their character and for which they are responsible. On the other hand, Quintus gives these statements on responsibility to characters who are trying to excuse their own acts to themselves and, particularly, to others, i.e. they are motivated contextually. It would be non-Stoic to excuse oneself for a bad deed by reference to an almighty fate. It seems that Quintus, by presenting this tension, wanted the reader to reconsider and reflect on the different concepts.
Author details: | Ursula GärtnerORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2014-0007 |
ISSN: | 2196-7008 |
ISSN: | 0031-7985 |
Title of parent work (German): | Philologus |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | German |
Year of first publication: | 2014 |
Publication year: | 2014 |
Release date: | 2019/03/14 |
Tag: | Entscheidungsfreiheit; Schicksal; Stoa Posthomerica; Quintus Smyrnaeus |
Volume: | 158 |
Issue: | 1 |
First page: | 97 |
Last Page: | 129 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Klassische Philologie |
DDC classification: | 8 Literatur / 87 Lateinische, italische Literaturen / 870 Italische Literaturen; Lateinische Literatur |
9 Geschichte und Geografie / 93 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie / 930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499, Archäologie | |
Peer review: | Referiert |
External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe ; 134 |