The κόλασις in Hellenic Literature: From Thucydides to Pseudo-Timaeus

Ewa Osek

The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin , Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9407-4435


Abstract

A subject of this paper is the semantic analysis of the Greek verbal noun κόλασις in Hellenic literature from its beginning to the composition of the New Testament. Part one of the article presents the lexicographical definitions and etymology of the κόλασις. Part two is to analyze the semantics of the word in classical period. Part three discusses meaning of the term in Hellenistic period. Part four contains a conclusion to summarize all analyzed occurrences and to classify meanings of the word. The semantic analysis of the κόλασις usage in the Hellenic prose of Classical and Hellenistic periods enables us to specify its dozen meanings. These are following: political and economic sanctions; lopping a tree; repression; punishments or rewords that motivate people; disciplining, upbringing; legal punishment; reformative punishment, such as flogging, fining, dishonoring; deterrence, such as banishment, decimation, capital punishment; revenge, reprisal, such as torturing, starving; earthly punishment; eschatological punishment; divine retribution. Among 140 occurrences there are only eight items that refer to eschatological punishments, of which two (observed in Clearchus of Soloi and Diodorus Siculus) denote the divine retribution which potentially can be eternal.

Keywords:

κόλασις (kolasis), semantics, ancient Greek literature, Classic period (510-323 B.C.), Hellenistic period (323-31 B.C.)

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Published
2019-12-27


Osek, E. (2019). Κόλασις w literaturze helleńskiej: od Tukidydesa do Pseudo-Timajosa. Verbum Vitae, 36, 335–372. https://doi.org/10.31743/vv.3317

Ewa Osek  ewaosek@wp.pl
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

Ewa Osek, filolog klasyczny, pracownik naukowo-dydaktyczny w Instytucie Literaturoznawstwa KUL, doktor habilitowany nauk humanistycznych w dyscyplinie literaturoznawstwo, profesor nadzwyczajny KUL, członek International Society for Neoplatonic Studies. Główne obszary zainteresowań: filologia klasyczna, literatura starogrecka, religia w literaturze późnego antyku, tak zwana literatura orficka, neoplatonizm. Autorka kilku książek, kilkudziesięciu artykułów naukowych oraz kilkunastu tłumaczeń tekstów autorów starogreckich, m.in. Platona, Porfiriusza z Tyru, Marinusa z Samarii. Uczestniczyła czynnie w wielu konferencjach naukowych w Polsce i zagranicą.

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