@article{oai:icu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002594,
 author = {Cairns, Douglas L.},
 issue = {45},
 journal = {人文科学研究 （キリスト教と文化）, Humanities: Christianity and Culture},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {This discussion starts from the encounter between Achilles and Priam
in Iliad 24, and especially Achilles’ remarks on the jars of Zeus (525-35), the
seminal expression of a characteristic Greek attitude towards the
mutability of fortune and the instability of happiness. Such ideas can be
readily paralleled in other cultures, literatures and narrative forms, both
ancient and more recent, Greek and non-Greek. Their expression in
language, symbol, and art (both verbal and visual) illustrates the way that
the condensation of such complexes of thought and feeling in typical and
traditional forms makes a particular ethical or emotional perspective
tangible, tractable and transferable. These recurrent forms capture
important aspects of a culture’s emotional and normative repertoire in a
way that allows them to be reconstituted and applied in the mind of each
recipient or audience member. The paper considers some of the
implications of this in the Greek narrative tradition, from Homer, through
archaic poetry, tragedy and Aristotle’s theory of tragedy to a detailed
examination of the persistence of the phenomenon and its extensive
influence on narrative shape in Plutarch’s Life of Aemilius Paullus, a
splendid example of how later Greek narratives return explicitly to the
most authoritative of all Greek narrative sources as a way of locating
themselves in what their authors clearly regard as a distinctive Greek
tradition.},
 pages = {27--67},
 title = {Exemplarity and Narrative in the Greek Tradition},
 year = {2014}
}