HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY AND THE FALL OF TROY.

Title: HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY AND THE FALL OF TROY.
Identifier: AAI8119677
identifier: 8119677
Creator: THOMPSON, DIANE PAIGE.
Contributor: Prof. Helaine Newstead
Date: 1981
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Literature, Comparative
Abstract: This study examines a selected group of stories related to the Trojan War to consider the variety of ways in which they deal with the problems of human responsibility for the disasters that occurred, and the extent to which they place the blame on non-human sources, such as the gods or the stars.;The stories analyzed include: Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, the anonymous twelfth-century French Eneas, the Roman de Troie by Benoit de Sainte-Maure, the Historia Destructionis Troiae by Guido de Columnis, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Caxton's The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.;Special attention is paid to the changing perceptions about the nature of causation and the related problem of human free will and responsibility during the Middle Ages, and the relation of these changes to Christian philosophy and other cultural factors.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.
Program: Comparative Literature