Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy: The Self in Dialogue (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198152323)

This is a major study of conceptions of selfhood and personality in Homer and Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. The focus is on the norms of personality in Greek psychology and ethics. Gill argues that the key to understanding Greek thought of this type is to counteract the subjective and individualistic aspects of our own thinking about the person. He defines an "objective-participant" conception of personality, symbolized by the idea of the person as an interlocutor in a series of psychological and ethical dialogues.

Author: Christopher Gill
ISBN-10: 0198152329
ISBN-13: 9780198152323
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 07/16/1998
Pages: 520
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.36w x 1.17d