Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: The article discusses the philosophical implications of the Greek myth of Eos and Tithonus. In relation to different versions of this myth, the opinions of various authors regarding the problem of finding and maintaining individual identity in the conditions of bodily metamorphoses, as well as the problems of aging (gradual loss of the body and memory) are considered. The question is raised about the body of the mythological hero and the means of transmitting the fabula, whether it is transmission in the oral tradition through speech-logos or transmission through the text fixed on a material carrier (which can be lost, corrupted, restored ). The question of the interrelation of the myth of Eos and Tithonus with the details of the biography of the authors who refer to it is being studied. In this respect, the following are studied: the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite, Sappho’s “Tithonus poem” (including the history of its finding and reconstruction), as well as the poem “Tithonus the Cicada” by Alexei Parshchikov, which puts the ancient story into the modern context of reasoning about the “digital body”, transhumanism and cloning.
Author: Valery V. Petroff
Institution: Institute of Philosophy
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4385659730