Do modern pop music stars, athletes, actors, or politicians do things specifically calculated to uphold or augment their public image—things they feel that they must do, even if they would rather not do them? Are these people “shamed,” i.e. lose status or ratings, if they do not engage in certain behaviors? Does the acquisition of gera (material goods as status-markers, “conspicuous consumption”) or ’s level of timé (social standing, “public image”) Compare at least three specific passages in the Iliad that deal with the shame culture (especially what Hector says to Andromache in Book 6) with comparable passages in the memoirs of a famous or popular modern figure from the entertainment or music industry, professional sports, or politics. To what extent does the modern figure have the same goals as, and suffer the same anxieties and necessities as, the Homeric figure on the battlefield? Make sure that you cover the modern equivalents of Homeric timé, geras, arête, and aidos (“shame”), and demonstrate how all these forces are operative in the modern figure’s life. Students who select this topic should include the following books as one of their scholarly sources:......Click here to get more on this paper......
Aidōs : the psychology and ethics of honour and shame in ancient Greek literature
Douglas L. Cairns.
Author: Cairns, Douglas L.
Published: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1993.
The Greeks and the irrational.
Author: Dodds, E. R. (Eric Robertson) 1893-
Published: Berkeley, University of California Press, 1951.
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