Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness

by Ruth Padel

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Madness is central to Western tragedy in all epochs, but we find the origins of this centrality in early Greece: in Homeric insight into the "damage a damaged mind can do." Greece, and especially tragedy, gave the West its permanent perception of madness as violent and damaging. Drawing on her deep knowledge of anthropology, psychoanalysis, Shakespeare, and the history of madness, as well as of Greek language and literature, Ruth Padel probes the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691033609

ISBN13:9780691033600

Release Date:January 1995

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:294 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Related Subjects

Ancient & Classical Literature Arts, Music & Photography Criticism & Theory Drama Europe Greece Greek Greek & Roman History History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Medieval Movements & Periods Performing Arts Roman Theater

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