In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self

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Princeton University Press, 1992 - Art - 210 pages

Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness attributed to Hades and to women, Padel analyzes tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within.

 

Contents

The Divinity of Inside and Outside
3
CHAPTER
6
Heart Liver Phrenes Inner Liquids
18
Metaphor and Anatomical Details
33
CHAPTER 3
49
CHAPTER 4
78
CHAPTER 5
99
The Zoology and Daemonology of Emotion
114
CHAPTER 7
138
CHAPTER 8
161
Erinyes Seen
179
Works Cited
193
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About the author (1992)

Ruth Padel, recently Visiting Professor in the Modern Greek Program at Princeton University, has taught classics at the University of Oxford and the University of London. She is the author of two books of poems and of Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness.

Bibliographic information

TitleIn and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self
Princeton Paperback
AuthorRuth Padel
Editionreprint
PublisherPrinceton University Press, 1992
ISBN0691037663, 9780691037660
Length210 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Art / History / Ancient & Classical
Drama / General
Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
  
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