Tragic Pathos: Pity and Fear in Greek Philosophy and Tragedy

ISBN-13: 9780521765107 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 292 str.

Dana LaCourse Munteanu

Opis

An examination of pity and fear as responses to tragedy in ancient Greek thought.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Theoretical Views about Pity and Fear as Aesthetic Emotions: 1. Drama and the emotions: an Indo-European connection?; 2. Gorgias: a strange trio, the poetic emotions; 3. Plato: from reality to tragedy and back; 4. Aristotle: the first 'theorist' of the aesthetic emotions; Part II. Pity and Fear within Tragedies: 5. An introduction; 6. Aeschylus: Persians; 7. Prometheus Bound; 8. Sophocles: Ajax; 9. Euripides: Orestes; Appendix: catharsis and the emotions in the definition of tragedy in the Poetics.