Autore: Scavello, Giacomo
Titolo: La contemplazione di Elena: passione, responsabilità e perdono nell’"Iliade"
Periodico: Estetica
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 17 - Pagina finale: 36

Helen represents one of the most elusive, complex, and at the same time fascinating figures in Homer. In the first section of the essay, the theme of passion and emotional bonds will be explored. The second part will examine the conceptual pair of guilt-responsibility, with regard to the theme of moral accountability and the burden of the past, through a comparison with the theories of Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff, Paul Ricœur and Bernard Williams. In the third and final section, an original interpretation of the heroine will be proposed, based on the last episode in which Helen appears in the "Iliad" (24. 761-75), the funeral lament for Hector, aiming to demonstrate the importance of the conceptual pair forgiveness-action in Homer.




SICI: 2039-6635(2025)1<17:LCDEPR>2.0.ZU;2-#
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