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Gerson, Lloyd

Hamartia the Concept of Error in the Western Tradition Essays in Honor of John M. Crossett
1983 0-88946-805-2
Thirteen essays which focus on a theme to which Crossett dedicated much of his highly interdisciplinary research. Six essays concern hamartia in Greek works by Herodotus, Plato, Euripides, and others; two deal with the concept of error in the Christian theology of Boethius and Aquinas; and five examine hamartia in 14th- through 19th-century English works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Coleridge, and George Eliot.