Tragic Pathos: Pity and Fear in Greek Philosophy and Tragedy

ISBN: 9781107526587 出版年：2011 页码：294 Dana LaCourse Munteanu Cambridge University Press

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.