Emotion in action : : Thucydides and the tragic chorus / / by Eirene Visvardi.
Emotion in Action: Thucydides and the Tragic Chorus offers a new approach to the tragic chorus by examining how certain choruses ‘act’ on their shared feelings. Eirene Visvardi redefines choral action, analyzes choruses that enact fear and pity, and juxtaposes them to the Athenian dêmos in Thucydide...
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| Superior document: | Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume 377 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
Volume 377. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 Choral Emotions and Collective Passions: Questions and Approaches, Old and New
- 2 Contextualizing Choral Emotions: Thucydides and Collective Psychology
- 3 Emotion in Aeschylus’ Active Choruses
- 4 Enacting Choral Emotion: Sophocles and Euripides
- Coda: The Value(s) of Collective Emotion in Action
- Bibliography
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Sources.