The Tragedy of Epistemic Uncertainty

• In Event: Law, Power, and the Imagination: Reframing Authority and Ethics in the Ancient and Premodern World

Brief Overview

This paper argues that Greek tragedy shaped the concept of imagination before Plato, with the tragic phasma bridging Homeric thought and Platonic phantasia, revealing how appearance, uncertainty, and human subjectivity define the tragic condition.

Author

• Avshalom M. Schwartz, Southern Methodist University