1st Edition
Politics through the Iliad and the Odyssey Hobbes writes Homer
By Andrea Catanzaro
Copyright 2019
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. The Hobbesian Homer: Between Amusement and Propaganda 2. The Hobbesian Translations of the Homeric poems: A Reading from the Political Perspective. Analogies and Differences 3. The Sovereign-Subject Dichotomy and the Problem of Monocratic Power between the Original Homeric Text and its Hobbesian Translation 4. Mortal and Immortal God. The Problem of the Genesis of the Political Power
Biography
Andrea Catanzaro is Assistant Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Genova, Italy. His interests lie in Ancient Political Thought and its reception in the Western Political Literature of Early Modern and Modern Age.
