Form and Event: Principles for an Interpretation of the Greek World
| Author | Carlo Diano; translated by Timothy C. Campbell and Lia Turtas; introduction by Jacques Lezra |
|---|---|
| Published | 1952 |
| Format | Book |
TL;DR — Italian classicist Carlo Diano’s 1952 essay reading Greek thought through two categories, “form” and “event”; the 2020 Fordham University Press English translation.
Carlo Diano was an Italian philologist and philosopher, translator of Epicurus and the Greek tragedians. Forma ed evento first appeared in 1952 as a long essay in the Giornale critico della filosofia italiana and was reissued in 1960, 1967 and 1993. Its argument sets two ways of grasping reality against each other: “form,” the timeless shape that can be contemplated, and “event,” what happens to someone, here and now. Diano uses the pair to read Greek religion, tragedy, philosophy and art.
This edition is the first in English, translated by Timothy C. Campbell and Lia Turtas for Fordham’s Commonalities series (2020), with a long introduction by Jacques Lezra placing Diano among postwar European thinkers.
What it is: a classic of Italian postwar philosophy and classical scholarship, in a current academic translation. In-print university-press book; no open copy found.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
140 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.