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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.

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Author details:Ursula GärtnerORCiDGND
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
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