主题：盾与弓：《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》中的武器与权威
主讲人： Aara Suksi（西安大略大学、副教授）
时间：2017年6月21日下午2：00—3：00
地点：校本部C512室
主办：外国语学院
分类：外国语学院语言文化与世界文明系列讲座（十三 ）
内容简介：
In ancient Greek culture violent revenge, as a form of divine justice, is in itself unavoidably transgressive, and, paradoxically, always risks divine punishment in turn. The great Greek Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, feature the heroes Achilles and Odysseus, who are often defined in contrast to one another, as very different heroic types. This paper focuses not on their differences, but on a series of parallels that can be drawn between them specifically as violent users of weapons.
The Homeric hero demonstrates his excellence and wins his glory by performing acts of extreme violence. But this heroic ideal is problematic; even though the hero’s violence enacts a revenge that is presented as a form of justice sanctioned by the gods, this violence is also profoundly morally ambivalent, and paradoxically risks divine punishment. While he enacts violent revenge, the hero’s connection to his own humanity is precariously in question. Culture in general tends to mediate such transitional crises with ritualized objects and sequences of actions. In the Homeric epics in particular, certain narrative strategies worked to authorize the hero’s violence by setting it apart within a poetically ritualized sequence. For example, the hero acquires unique arms or armour that identify him as especially marked by divine fate as authorized to exact violent revenge. This paper identifies the ritualized actions and objects in the Homeric hero’s transitional immersion into the violence of revenge, presenting ten parallels between Achilles and Odysseus as violent wielders of unique arms.
主讲人简介：Aara Suksi，西安大略大学古典学系副教授，主要研究领域包括：希腊文学与文化、古希腊语言、古希腊神话和古希腊的性别研究。近年来发表的相关论文有： Edited (With Jeremy Rossiter) The Seasons: Greek and Roman Perspectives, a special issue of Mouseion (XLVII - Series III, Vol. 3, 2003)
Introduction (with Jeremy Rossiter) to The Seasons: Greek and Roman Perspectives, a special issue of Mouseion (XLVII - Series III, Vol. 3, 2003) 233-235.
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