Padel In and Out of the Mind

Greek Images of the Tragic Self
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-8432-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 230 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Padel, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.