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  1. Tragic pathos
    pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York ; Melbourne ; Madrid ; Cape Town ; Singapore ; São Paulo ; Delhi ; Tokyo ; Mexiko City

    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... more

    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    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 for the two emotions a different purpose, mode of presentation and, to a degree, understanding. 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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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781139028257
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    RVK Categories: CD 1610 ; FE 4451
    Subjects: Geschichte; Greek drama (Tragedy) / History and criticism; Pathos in literature; Sympathy in literature; Fear in literature; Emotions (Philosophy) / History; Aesthetics, Ancient; Griechisch; Tragödie; Philosophie; Mitleid <Motiv>; Furcht <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Aeschylus / Persae; Aeschylus / Prometheus bound; Sophocles / Ajax; Euripides / Orestes
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 278 Seiten)
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    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

  2. Tragic pathos
    pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York ; Melbourne ; Madrid ; Cape Town ; Singapore ; São Paulo ; Delhi ; Tokyo ; Mexiko City

    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... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    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 for the two emotions a different purpose, mode of presentation and, to a degree, understanding. 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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781139028257
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: CD 1610 ; FE 4451
    Subjects: Geschichte; Greek drama (Tragedy) / History and criticism; Pathos in literature; Sympathy in literature; Fear in literature; Emotions (Philosophy) / History; Aesthetics, Ancient; Griechisch; Tragödie; Philosophie; Mitleid <Motiv>; Furcht <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Aeschylus / Persae; Aeschylus / Prometheus bound; Sophocles / Ajax; Euripides / Orestes
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 278 Seiten)
    Notes:

    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

  3. Looking at Ajax
    Contributor: Stuttard, David (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney

    Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Stuttard, David (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781350072305; 9781350190610
    RVK Categories: FH 22990 ; FH 22990
    Edition: Paperback edition
    Subjects: Sophocles; Krieg; Posttraumatisches Stresssyndrom
    Other subjects: Sophocles / Ajax; Ajax / (Greek mythological figure) / In literature
    Scope: x, 231 Seiten
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    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 219-225 und Index. - Enthält eine englische Übersetzung von Sophocles' Ajax. - Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke