In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self Paperback - 1994
by Ruth Padel
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THE CLASSICAL Athenians, like modern Hindus, had shrines throughout their homes.
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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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- Title In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self
- Author Ruth Padel
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 230
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton
- Date 1994-11-06
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780691037660 / 0691037663
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.6 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 9105103
- Dewey Decimal Code 882.010
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