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In this wide-ranging work 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. These images are part of our own culture too, but as Greek tragedy uses them they reveal attitudes to emotion that are remarkably alien to modern readers. Padel provides important background to fascinating details of Greek life such as entrail-divination and snakes in the house, showing how these relate to the Greek understanding of mind. Central to her discussion is tragedy's perennial question, how and why all human beings, female and male, suffer.

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One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992
"A rich and brilliant study.... [Padel] helps us to see not just that Greek ways of thinking are so profoundly alien, but also how they make sense and could be coherently lived. Her skill as a writer ... make[s] those foreign patterns of thought compellingly vivid."--Malcolm Heath, The Times Literary Supplement

"Unfamiliar connections and perspectives will make [this] book important for professionals, and the vivid portrayal of an intense and exotic mental world will appeal to the serious general reader."--Jasper Griffin, The New York Review of Books

"An intriguing book.... Padel ranges widely over the medical writers, epic, comedy, and philosophy. She fortifies and enriches her arguments with the work of scholars in anthropology, psychology, and religion.... A poet herself, she is very sensitive to the possibilities and associations of language."--Michael R. Halleran, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"Ruth Padel's close reading of the language of the extant plays will be helpful to scholars and provide a window onto ancient Greek ideas of the mind for the general reader."--The Washington Times

Contenuti:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Ch. 1 Introduction: The Divinity of Inside and Outside 3
Ch. 2 Innards 12
Entrails: Learning, Feeling, Dividing 12
Heart, Liver, Phrenes, Inner Liquids 18
"Spirit," "Soul," "Mind" 27
Metaphor and "Anatomical Details" 33
Concreteness of the Innards: Poroi and Pre-Socratics 40
Insight into Disunity 44
Ch. 3 Disease and Divination: Knowing the Causes of Pain 49
External and Internal Forces of Disease 49
Channels to the Soul: The Vulnerability of Sight and Hearing 59
Inner Movement: Source of Knowledge, Sign of Pain 65
Black Prophetic Innards 68
Discourse of Darkness 75
Ch. 4 The Flux of Feeling 78
Death, Sleep, Dream, and Underground Rivers 78
Flow and Storm 81
Breaths of Passion 88
Ch. 5 Inner World, Underworld, and Gendered Images of "Mind" 99
"Mind," Earth, Womb, Hades 99
Inner Impurities and Emissions: "Good" Turned "Bad" 102
The Mainly Female "Mind" 106
Ch. 6 The Zoology and Daemonology of Emotion 114
Daemonic Weather, Wind, Fire 114
Goads, Whips, Pursuit 117
Biting, Eating 119
Oistros, Poison, Snakes, Dogs 120
The Mobile Adversary One Cannot Fight 125
The Aerial Terrorist 129
These Inner Wounds Are Real 132
The Alternative: Growth Within 134
Ch. 7 Animal, Daimon: Bringers of Death and Definition 138
Nonhuman: What We Defend Ourselves Against 138
Animal Weaponry 141
Using Animal Is Using Daimon 144
Nonhuman Definition of the Human 147
Gods' Weapons 152
Personifications 157
States of Mind: Multiple, Daemonic, Female 159
Ch. 8 Blood in the Mind 162
Ate, Lyssa: Madness Personified 162
Epic Erinyes 164
Tragic Erinyes: Damage "from the Ground" 168
Blood, Murder, Madness 172
Erinyes Seen 179
The Most Polluted Day 182
Erinyes Unseen 185
Where the Terrible Is Good 189
Works Cited 193
Index 205

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  • EditorePrinceton Univ Pr
  • Data di pubblicazione1992
  • ISBN 10 0691073791
  • ISBN 13 9780691073798
  • RilegaturaCopertina rigida
  • Numero di pagine232
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