Tragic pathos : pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy /
Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotleβsss poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Platoβsss critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of fear as respons...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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 βsstheoristβss 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.
