Tragic pathos pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy
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 res...
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Theoretical views about pity and fear as aesthetic emotions: Drama and the emotions : an Indo-European connection? ; Gorgias : a strange trio, the poetic emotions ; Plato : from reality to tragedy and back ; Aristotle : the first 'theorist' of the aesthetic emotions
- Pity and fear within tragedies: An introduction ; Aeschylus : Persians ; Prometheus bound ; Sophocles : Ajax ; Euripides : Orestes
- Appendix: Catharsis and the emotions in the definition of tragedy in the Poetics