Did this particular tropos exist in old texts?
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2021 10:29 pm
The question is about this tropos:
The tropos appears to figure also in Life of Josephus, where the hero (Josephus himself) defeats again and again his enemy Jesus b. Sapphat, so I wonder if there is some irony in the Josephus's episode of the three crucified, assuming that the survived among them was just Jesus b. Sapphat.
Are there other examples?
- the hero of the story defeats various enemies,
- one in particular of these enemies is defeated again and again by the hero of the story, sometimes even in a grotesque way,
- differently from other enemies, this particular enemy never dies, to make the point that he returns to attack, only to be defeated again and again by the hero of the story.
- Usually, this particular enemy has a particular fate in the end of the story of the hero.
- The function of the fate of this particular enemy is to exalt, by contrast, the force of the hero of the story.
The tropos appears to figure also in Life of Josephus, where the hero (Josephus himself) defeats again and again his enemy Jesus b. Sapphat, so I wonder if there is some irony in the Josephus's episode of the three crucified, assuming that the survived among them was just Jesus b. Sapphat.
Are there other examples?