Contingency and Providence: The Relationship between God and Man in the Late Tragedies of Euripides and the Athenian Crisis

偶然性与天意：欧里庇得斯晚期悲剧和雅典危机中神与人的关系

• 批准号: 442752541
• 负责人: Privatdozent Dr. Michael Schramm
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Seminar für Klassische Philologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/442752541?language=en
• 关键词: Contingency; Providence; Relationship; between; God

Euripides was often seen as a critic of the gods and an enlightener, since in his plays, more often than among the other tragic playwrights, criticism of the action or non-action of the gods is expressed, resembling the criticism of the gods by philosophers and contemporary sophists. It is not uncommon for statements about the gods to be made in one and the same piece in harmony with the traditional myth and criticism of these gods, often also by one and the same figure. The project understands the staging of these contradictory images of gods as a dramaturgical problematization of contemporary concepts of gods. It focuses in particular on the experiences of contingency and providence staged in the late tragedies, analyzes these with the methods of Classical Philology and Literary Criticism and with a view to contemporary philosophical discourses, and asks whether Euripides' dramatization of the interplay of contingency and providence can be understood as an artistic reflection on the political crisis in Athens, which manifested itself around 415, the beginning of the Sicilian expedition. Through this novel methodological approach, the investigation leads to a reformulation of the question of the function and meaning of the gods in Euripides, which is much discussed in Euripides research, and at the same time contributes to ancient historical research on the relationship between religion and politics and the religious history of mentality at the end of the 5th century.

欧里庇得斯经常被视为神的批评家和启蒙者，因为在他的戏剧中，比其他悲剧剧作家更经常地表达对神的行动或不行动的批评，类似于哲学家和当代智者对神的批评。关于神的陈述在同一篇文章中与传统神话和对这些神的批评相协调并不罕见，通常也是由同一个人物提出的。该项目将这些矛盾的神的形象理解为当代神的概念的戏剧性问题化。本文特别关注晚期悲剧中的偶然性和普罗维登斯的经验，运用古典文献学和文学批评的方法并结合当代哲学话语进行分析，并提出欧里庇得斯对偶然性和普罗维登斯相互作用的戏剧化是否可以理解为对415年前后雅典政治危机的艺术反思，西西里远征的开始通过这一新颖的方法论途径，对欧里庇得斯作品中的神的功能和意义问题进行了重新表述，这一问题在欧里庇得斯的研究中得到了广泛的讨论，同时也为古代历史研究宗教与政治的关系以及世纪末的宗教思想史做出了贡献。