TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gärtner, Ursula
T1  - Schicksal und Entscheidungsfreiheit bei Quintus Smyrnaeus
JF  - Philologus
N2  - 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.
KW  - Quintus Smyrnaeus
KW  - Posthomerica
KW  - Stoa
KW  - Schicksal
KW  - Entscheidungsfreiheit
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/phil-2014-0007
SN  - 2196-7008
SN  - 0031-7985
VL  - 158
IS  - 1
SP  - 97
EP  - 129
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Gärtner, Ursula
T1  - Schicksal und Entscheidungsfreiheit bei Quintus Smyrnaeus
T1  - Fate and Freedom of Choice with Quintus Smyrnaeus
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe
N2  - 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.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 134 
KW  - Quintus Smyrnaeus
KW  - Posthomerica
KW  - Stoa
KW  - Schicksal
KW  - Entscheidungsfreiheit
Y1  - 2017
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-398657
SN  - 1866-8380
IS  - 134
ER  -