Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology) - Tapa blanda

Kerenyi, Carl

 
9780691019079: Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology)
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ISBN 10: 069101907X ISBN 13: 9780691019079
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 1997

Sinopsis

Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus's release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. Carl Kerényi examines the story of Prometheus and the very process of mythmaking as a reflection of the archetypal function and seeks to discover how this primitive tale was invested with a universal fatality, first in the Greek imagination, and then in the Western tradition of Romantic poetry. Kerényi traces the evolving myth from Hesiod and Aeschylus, and in its epic treatment by Goethe and Shelley; he moves on to consider the myth from the perspective of Jungian psychology, as the archetype of human daring signifying the transformation of suffering into the mystery of the sacrifice.

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Carl Kerényi was a professor of classics and the history of religion in his native Hungary. His works include Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter and Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, and he collaborated with C. G. Jung to write Essays on a Science of Mythology; all three books are available in Mythos paperback editions.

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Princeton University Press
Año de publicación
1997
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ISBN 10 
069101907X
ISBN 13 
9780691019079
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Número de páginas
196
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9780691097053: Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence (Bollingen Series)

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ISBN 10:  0691097054 ISBN 13:  9780691097053
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 1963
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