BLAMING AGAMEMNON MORAL CONFLICT AND THE FIRST CHORAL SEQUENCE OF AESCHYLUS' AGAMEMNON
Abstract
Consider the following questions: is moral value subject to luck?2 How should we understandand cope with moral conflict?3 What do lines 40-263 of Aeschylus' Agamemnon mean, and whydo the Chorus sing them? Martha Nussbaum in her recent book4 answers these questions andsees a deep connection between them. The sub-title of her book is "Luck and Ethics in Greekphilosophy and tragedy" and in Chapter 2 she argues that the first choral sequence of Ag.answers the second question and gives a partial answer to the first. She also claims thatAeschylus has been misunderstood because of misguided modem philosophical assumptionsconcerning the two questions.
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2014-08-15
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