Hunting for Justice by Kalliopi Nikolopoulou HARDBACK 9798855801286

State University of New York Press

Hunting for JusticeThe Cosmology of Dike in Aeschyluss Oresteia\nAuthor(s): Kalliopi Nikolopoulou\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9798855801286, 979-8855801286\nSynopsis\nUtilizes Greek tragedy to investigate the fundamentally arbitrary and violent nature of justice.\n\nA purely political understanding of justice does not convey the cosmological origins of the ancient conception of justice, Dik?, in Aeschylus's Oresteia. Drawing from Walter Burkert's anthropology of the hunt in Homo Necans, which articulates an ancient cosmology and implies a theory of (tragic) seriousness that parallels Aristotle's naturalist interpretation of tragedy, Hunting for Justice argues that justice is rooted in predation as exemplified by the Furies. Although the Oresteia has been read as the passage from the violence of nature to civic justice, Kalliopi Nikolopoulou offers an original interpretation of t.