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Chapter 1 - Gorgias and the Justice of Tragic Apatē

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2021

Jonas Grethlein
Jonas Grethlein
Affiliation:
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
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The exploration of the ancient aesthetics of deception takes its cue from Gorgias fr. B 23 DK. After contemplating the fragment in its original contexts – Plutarch cites it in two different treatises – I will argue that Gorgias’ assertion derives its poignancy from the transformation of several topoi. What reads like a mere witticism is the result of a crossing of an epistemological tradition with an ethical paradox and a poetological premise, all under the auspices of aesthetics.

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aestheticsGreek literatureimmersionethicsancient criticismdeceptionGorgiastragedy
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The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception
The Ethics of Enchantment from Gorgias to Heliodorus
 , pp. 1 - 32
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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