Tragic pathos : pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy

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Tragic pathos : pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy

Title remainder

pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy

Statement of responsibility

Dana LaCourse Munteanu

Creator

• Munteanu, Dana LaCourse, 1972-

Subject

• Aesthetics, Ancient
• Emotions (Philosophy) -- History
• Euripides
• Fear in literature
• Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism
• Aeschylus
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval
• Pathos in literature
• Sophocles
• Sympathy in literature
• Sympati i litteraturen
• Grekiska tragedier -- historia

Language

eng

Summary

"Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of fear as responses to tragedy, each assumes a different purpose for the two emotions and mode of presentation and, to a degree, understanding of them. This book reassesses expressions of the emotions within different tragedies and explores emotional responses to and discussions of the tragedies by contemporary philosophers, providing insights into the ethical and social implications of the emotions"--

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DLC

Dewey number

882/.0109162

Index

index present

LC call number

PA3136

LC item number

.M86 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography