Research Catalog

Title

Politics through the Iliad and the Odyssey : Hobbes writes Homer / Andrea Catanzaro.

Author

Catanzaro, Andrea, 1976-

Publication

New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Details

Description

viii, 197 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Facing censorship and being confined to the fringes of the political debate of his time, Thomas Hobbes turned his attention to translating Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey from Greek into English. Many have not considered enough the usefulness of these translations. In this book, Andrea Catanzaro analyses the political value of Hobbes' translations of Homer's works and exposes the existence of a link between the translations and the previous works of the Malmesbury philosopher. In do so, he asks: What new information concerning Hobbes' political and philosophical thought can be rendered from mere translation? What new offerings can a man in his eighties at the time offer, having widely explained his political ideas in numerous famous essays and treatises? What new elements can be deduced in a text that was well-known in England and where there were better versions than the ones produced by Hobbes? Andrea Catanzaro's commentary and theoretical interpretation offers an incentive to study Hobbes lesser known works in the wider development of Western political philosophy and the history of political thought.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 141

Uniform Title

• Hobbes e Omero. English
• Routledge studies in social and political thought.

Alternative Title

Hobbes e Omero.

Subjects

• Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
• Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 > Political and social views
• Political and social views
• Iliad (Homer)
• Homer > Iliad
• Odyssey (Homer)
• Homer > Odyssey

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The Hobbesian Homer: Between amusement and propoganda. Hobbes Thucydides and Hobbes's Homer: Different times and contexts. And different aims too? -- "Nothing else to do"? -- The Hobbesian translations of the Homeric poems -- Hobbes and the classical world: Language, culture and education -- To the reader, concerning the virtues of an heroic poem. A third piece of evidence? -- 2. The Hobbesian translations of the Homeric poems: A reading from the political perspective. Analogies and differences. The dichotomy between sovereign and subjects -- The kingship lexicon -- The dichotomy between mortal and immortal god -- The divine lexicon -- 3. The sovereign-subject dichotomy and the problem of monocratic power between the original Homeric text and its Hobbesian translation. Sovereign and subjects -- Plurality of kings and the problem of overlapping sovereignties (I): The "cases" of wánax and wanásso -- Plurality of kings and the problem of overlapping sovereignties (II): The "cases" of basiléus and basiléuo -- Poimèn laôn and the disappearance of the pastoral idea of monarchic power -- In order to complete the lexicon on kingship -- Modification on additional sense: The "case" of king -- 4. Mortal and immortal god: The problem of genesis of the political power. Human or divine genesis of the political power? The kings "fostered" and "sprung" by Zeus -- The sovereign fostered by Zeus. Not a mere lexical problem -- The sovereign sprung by Zeus. A semantically tighter and politically more problematic tie -- Other divine characteristics and their links to the genesis of power. A completion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 19-7100

ISBN

• 9780815383642
• 0815383649

LCCN

2018056872

OCLC

1084643991

Author

Catanzaro, Andrea, 1976- author.

Title

Politics through the Iliad and the Odyssey : Hobbes writes Homer / Andrea Catanzaro.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 141

Routledge studies in social and political thought.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Catanzaro, Andrea, 1976- author. Politics through the Iliad and the Odyssey New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9781351205672 (DLC) 2019004997

Research Call Number

JFE 19-7100