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  1. Tragic pathos
    pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    An examination of pity and fear as responses to tragedy in ancient Greek thought more

    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    An examination of pity and fear as responses to tragedy in ancient Greek thought

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780521765107; 9781283378468; 9781139189019
    Subjects: Greek drama (Tragedy); Pathos in literature; Sympathy in literature; Fear in literature; Emotions (Philosophy); Aesthetics, Ancient
    Other subjects: Aeschylus: Prometheus bound; Sophocles: Ajax; Euripides: Orestes; Aeschylus: Persae
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xiii, 278 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-274) and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    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 'theorist' 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.