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
Innards
12
12
47
The Vulnerability of Sight and Hearing
59
Source of Knowledge Sign of Pain
65
Discourse of Darkness
75
CHAPTER 5
86
The Zoology and Daemonology of Emotion
114
CHAPTER 7
138
102
146
106
153
CHAPTER 8
161
Erinyes Seen
179
Works Cited
193
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Inner World Underworld and Gendered Images of Mind
99

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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.

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