"We tend to associate the act of witnessing with bystanders who have not played an active role in the events that they are watching. The present monograph considers characters from Homer's Iliad and Greek tragedy that are looking on and reacting (in...
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"We tend to associate the act of witnessing with bystanders who have not played an active role in the events that they are watching. The present monograph considers characters from Homer's Iliad and Greek tragedy that are looking on and reacting (in word, deed, or both) to their own actions. It closely examines those scenes in which they are put in the position of a spectator, witnessing the aftermath of their deed(s)"--Provided by publisher Looking on from the walls of Troy: The death of Hector The Death of Patroclus ; No witness, no pity? ; You, Patroclus ; Calling out to the threatened warrior: The Patrocleia and Patroclus's doom ; Apostrophes and turning points: danger or death ; The downfall of Patroclus Negativity and absence Apostrophes and the poetics of helplessness ; Absence and presence: The Voice of the Helpless Spectator ; Achilles' delayed vision ; Mortal Achilles ; Chapter Two: Spectatorship, Agency, and Alienation in Sophocles' Trachiniae ; Watching through Deianeira's eyes Pity and Vulnerability From spectator to agent: Playing Aphrodite ; Watching Deianeira watch Heracles burn ; The divine agent and spectator: Cypris ; Watching Deianeira die ; Watching Heracles die ; The silence of Heracles ; Divine agents and spectators Preface ; Contents ; Introduction ; The powerless spectator: Witnessing the limits of the human condition ; Voicing their vision: Emotional response and character ; Time, knowledge, and power ; Narrative in tragedy, tragedy as narrative ; Perceptions and values ; Chapter Outline
Chapter Three: From Murderer to Messenger: Body, Speech, and Justice in Greek Tragedy. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - In English. - Print version record
