Ancient Forgiveness (2012 Griswold, Konstan), edited volume

Ancient Forgiveness (2012) is a volume edited by Charles L. Griswold and David Konstan.

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Contents

I. The territory philosophically considered

• What is forgiveness? / Adam Morton

II. Forgiveness among the Greeks

• Assuaging rage : remorse, repentance, and forgiveness in the classical world / David Konstan -- Achilles, Psammenitus, and Antigone : forgiveness in Homer and beyond / Page duBois -- All in the family : forgiveness and reconciliation in new comedy / Kathryn Gutzwiller

III. Forgiveness among the Romans

The anger of tyrants and the forgiveness of kings / Susanna Morton Braund -- Gender and forgiveness in the early Roman empire / Kristina Milnor -- "To forgive is divine" : gods as models of forgiveness in late republican and early imperial Rome / Zsuzsanna Várhelyi

IV. Judaic and Christian forgiveness

• Mercy, repentance, and forgiveness in ancient Judaism / Michael L. Morgan

• A man had two sons: the question of forgiveness in Luke 15 / Peter S. Hawkins

• Jesus' conditional forgiveness / Jennifer Wright Knust

• Forgiveness in patristic philosophy: the importance of repentance and the centrality of grace / Ilaria L. E. Ramelli

• Forgiveness and perfection: Maimonides, Aquinas, and medieval departures from Aristotle / Jonathan Jacobs.

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