Emotion in action : Thucydides and the tragic chorus / by Eirene Visvardi
- Author
- Visvardi, Eirene
- Published
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015.
- Physical Description
- x, 287 pages ; 24 cm.
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Choral Emotions and Collective Passions: Questions and Approaches, Old and New -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Preliminaries: Assumptions and Questions -- 3.Aristotle and the (Tragic) Emotions: Uses and Limitations -- 4.Collectively Dancing the Emotions -- 4.1.The Tragic Chorus -- 4.2.Rethinking Choral Action(s) -- 4.3.On Methodology -- 5.Collective Emotion Outside the Theater: Thucydides' History -- 6.Civilizing the Passions? Theorizing Emotion in Action -- 2.Contextualizing Choral Emotions: Thucydides and Collective Psychology -- 1.Preliminaries: `Feeling Together' in Thucydides -- 2.Collective Emotion within the City-State -- 2.1.Ideal Emotion in Athenian Democracy: the Citizen-Lover -- 2.2.Unideal Emotions within the State: The Plague -- 2.3.Pericles and the Emotions of the Demos: Phobos, Orge, and Gnome -- 2.4.The Emotions of Stasis: The Oligarchic Coup in Athens -- 2.5.The Quintessential Emotions of Stasis: Corcyra -- 2.6.Reason, Passion, and Human Nature -- 3.Collective Emotion and Interstate Relations -- 3.1.The Case of Mytilene -- 3.2.The Sicilian Expedition -- 4.Closing Thoughts: Collective Emotion---Potential and Shortcomings -- 3.Emotion in Aeschylus' Active Choruses -- 1.Defining Active Choruses -- 2.Aeschylus, Eumenides -- 3.Aeschylus, Supplices -- 4.Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes -- 4.Enacting Choral Emotion: Sophocles and Euripides -- 1.Defining Enactment -- 2.Sophocles, Philoctetes -- 3.Euripides, Bacchae.
- Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9789004269293 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004269290 (hardback : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
View MARC record | catkey: 14986729