Os caminhos "errantes" de Édipo : a sacralização do saber positivo: o mistério profano
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2002Type
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Oedipus’ “straying” roads: The sacralization of the positive knowlegde: The profane mistery
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Abstract in Portuguese
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This article illuminates the new place that the poetry of Sófocles reserves to knowledge and the figure of the fortune-teller. It highlights the elements that reduce the religious connotations of the intervention of Tiresias in King Oedipus. it shows the techniques with which the poet suggests that the knowledge of the oracles and destiny appear from the threshold of profane “fore-telling” that involves, as a halo, the production of positive knowledge and the practical attitudes of human experi ...
This article illuminates the new place that the poetry of Sófocles reserves to knowledge and the figure of the fortune-teller. It highlights the elements that reduce the religious connotations of the intervention of Tiresias in King Oedipus. it shows the techniques with which the poet suggests that the knowledge of the oracles and destiny appear from the threshold of profane “fore-telling” that involves, as a halo, the production of positive knowledge and the practical attitudes of human experience. ...
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Letras clássicas. São Paulo. N. 6 (jun. 2002), p. 99-116
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