The Myth of Sisyphus: Renaissance Theories of Human PerfectibilityFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2007 - 614 էջ The myth of Sisyphus symbolizes the idealization of human excellence as a perpetual process of becoming over the impossibility of absolute achievement. In Stoic philosophy, the writing of the Early Church Fathers, and in its allegorical interpretations in medieval and renaissance mythologies, Sisyphus is the archetypal model of human perfectibility. This Sisyphean archetype is a principal theme in renaissance theories of astral magic in the works of Pico, Ficino, Reuchlin, Paracelsus, Agrippa, and Dee. Erasmus, Melanchthon, and Ascham, and in utopian thought from More to Bacon. Sisyphus illuminates the sacred mysteries of life in the works of Philo Judaeus, Plato, Nicholas Cusanus, and Ficino; the spiritual and sensual contraries of love in the dialogues of Leone Ebreo, Bembo, and Bruno; and the tribulations of the unrequited lover in the works of Petrarch, Ronsard, and Sidney. |
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... kings or other self - made political men . The appeal of Sisyphus as an archetype of the aspiring human being is based on the attribution in the myth that he is the most " cunning and sub- tle " of men , that his genius is derived from ...
... kings or other self - made political men . The appeal of Sisyphus as an archetype of the aspiring human being is based on the attribution in the myth that he is the most " cunning and sub- tle " of men , that his genius is derived from ...
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... king of the western region , the Land of the Dead . Osiris and Isis conceived Horus , also by alleged magical means , who avenged the murder of his father , vindicated his own legitimacy , and united Upper and Lower Egypt . The myth can ...
... king of the western region , the Land of the Dead . Osiris and Isis conceived Horus , also by alleged magical means , who avenged the murder of his father , vindicated his own legitimacy , and united Upper and Lower Egypt . The myth can ...
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... King Arthur as having its origins in Troy . Philip the Good claimed that both Jason and Gideon are his patrons when in 1430 he founded the Order of the Golden Fleece . 19 Euhemeristic myth is closely related to the myth of the hero.20 ...
... King Arthur as having its origins in Troy . Philip the Good claimed that both Jason and Gideon are his patrons when in 1430 he founded the Order of the Golden Fleece . 19 Euhemeristic myth is closely related to the myth of the hero.20 ...
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... king of the Aeolian people in Thessaly ( one of the four main divisions of prehistoric Greeks ) . Sisyphus married ... kings . His principal antagonist was Autolycus , the son of Chione and Hermes / Mercury , the god of magic . Autolycus ...
... king of the Aeolian people in Thessaly ( one of the four main divisions of prehistoric Greeks ) . Sisyphus married ... kings . His principal antagonist was Autolycus , the son of Chione and Hermes / Mercury , the god of magic . Autolycus ...
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... King Lycaon , who had fifty sons , killed the child of one of his people and served it as a sacrifice to Zeus . Zeus " overturned the table " and killed King Lycaon and all of his sons , except Nyctimus , with a thunderbolt . But the ...
... King Lycaon , who had fifty sons , killed the child of one of his people and served it as a sacrifice to Zeus . Zeus " overturned the table " and killed King Lycaon and all of his sons , except Nyctimus , with a thunderbolt . But the ...
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The Patristic Sisyphus | 67 |
Sisyphus in Medieval and Renaissance Mythography | 86 |
Sisyphus as Astral Magician | 110 |
Sisyphus as Humanist | 136 |
Sisyphus as Lover | 193 |
Sisyphus as Hero | 313 |
Notes | 427 |
Bibliography | 544 |
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