Tragic pleasure from Homer to Plato /

• Main Author: Liebert, Rana Saadi (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
• Subjects: Πλάτων > Πολιτεία > 427-347; Συναισθήματα στη λογοτεχνία; Ελληνικό δράμα (Τραγωδία) > Ιστορία και κριτική

"This book offers a resolution of the paradox posed by the pleasure of tragedy by returning to its earliest articulations in archaic Greek poetry and its subsequent emergence as a philosophical problem in Plato's Republic. Socrates' claim that tragic poetry satisfies our 'hunger...