Institute of World Literature SAS
Topic
Ideas of Justice and Their Artistic Representation in Ancient Greek Literature
PhD. program
Literature Studies
Year of admission
2025
Name of the supervisor
prof. Mgr. Adam Bžoch, CSc.
Contact:
Receiving school
Filozofická fakulta UPJŠ
Annotation
The topic opens a literary and cultural-historical perspective on the relations between notions of natural justice and art (literature) in Greek antiquity. The project is characterised by an interdisciplinary orientation, as it presupposes an insight into issues of justice in Greek religion, philosophy, everyday private and public life (politics), and also reaches into the field of legal and meta-legal thought in European antiquity. On the one hand, the literary monuments are taken here as time-conditioned fictional/aesthetic documents testifying to ancient man's thinking about the dilemmas of justice; on the other hand, they are considered as aesthetic forms in which ancient man formulated his ideas about justice (e.g. fable, tragedy).