Arheologia dihotomiilor eroice
The Archaeology of the Heroic Dichotomies

Summary/Abstract: The text analyzes Prof. Stefan Borbely’s former doctoral thesis, De la Herakles la Eulenspiegel. Eroicul (From Herakles to Eulenspiegel. The Hero), turned into a book edited in two prints, 2001 and 2013. It starts by investigating the theoretical background of the topic (especially Thomas Carlyle and Otto Rank), by moving onto the anthropological aspects of the hero worship analyzed by the author, within a methodological line provided by a tradition inaugurated by Erwin Rohde’s Psyche which culminates almost three decades later with Jane Ellen Harrison’s Themis. A special attention is given to the twofold typology of the cultural hero as analyzed by Prof. Borbely in his book, structured by the dualism violence – wisdom. Further topics of the critic include the author’s propensity towards Lloyd deMause’s psycho-historical approaches and George Devereux’s theories concerning the social ritual of power and violence.

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